“OHOTO”

FATHER “ARCTUS”
MOTHER “Mercedes”

Born in Edinburgh Zoo 15/11/1991

I never knew of the icy wastes
Or those amazing skies
I was born in Edinburgh Zoo
In a cage to my surprise
Zoo’s are really prison camps
Our wildness they destroy
On concrete floors in cages
Hour after hour no joy
Existence its unnatural life
Humans everywhere
They decide when we should eat
And being a Polar Bear
Our instinctive memory
And our mothers love and care
Captivity is ignorance
being locked down
In despair

Which Rapidly takes over
The arrogance, that too
Humanity controls us
Everything we do
Dead flesh stinking water
The seasons far away
From being in the polar regions
For which of course we pay
The source of light is hampered
Inside a building, we
Need the cold the intensity
Of swimming in the sea
In stead a concrete floor
That hurts our pads
So senselessly
And, no life around
And no sounds around
And wanting to be free

The blue and white of Nature
The mentality of power
The exercise of awareness
The sixth sense where we vow
To live our lives in harmony
Our ruminative desires
Our willingness to wander
Receptive to the land
Able to cooperate
And to understand
The disinclination
Of a sterile cage
Indisposed to being
Anpuppet on their stage
Gawped at by the humans
We unconsenting souls
Grudging and unspontaneous
Regretful of our roles

Zoo’s are evil places
Our wildness they destroy
They pay us a disservice
And eliminate all joy
We are the stock items
And profit is the need
They inflist us with their misery
So that they succeed
Its an enterprise
A business
A world of commerce where
They have to make their budgets
And of course be aware
In sickness and in heath
That we
Have to attract those who
Pay the ticket price and come
That is what a zoo

Is about
We are the innocent
To lock us up is wrong
To abandon all our godly gifts
Here we do not belong
Soaked up in their arrogance
Deserted so to say
Withdrawn from the Polar sphere
And sadly made to stay
And then for me deciding
To ship me far away
To Japan another enclosure
Indoors
Yes everyday
The Japanese are masterful
The climate there is wrong
They really were incompetent
And I was far from strong

Again the food was lousy
Icy fish and meat
And visitors throw stuff at us
The badness is complete
The air is really awful
Our coat is far too thick
Their inadequacy was rampant
And I was always sick

Nobody to love me
Impoverished each day
Nobody to talk to
Deprived there was no way
Inoperative and idle
Benumbed most of the time
And just so artificial
No where at all to climb
Nightmares i had plenty
The food was rotten and
Everyday was a challenge
With nothing really planned
The arena just so awful
Sinister and bleak
Miserable and unhappy
Every single week

I passed into the spirit world
Just the other day
I couldn’t stand it anymore
I just wanted to say
These prison camps are terrible
The guards are so unfair
Whoever designs our captive life
Are never made aware
Every night I closed my eyes
And wished that I would be
Sent back to the POLAR lands
The ice and snow and sea
Places my mother spoke of
If only I could be
In the wilds far from a zoo
For my next eternity.

Died February 2021

About Rex Tyler

I love animals. I enjoy writing poetry and delivering speeches.I like to mentor people who need help in preparing speeches and evaluations.I enjoy travel although it is much harder for me these days.I so enjoyed the Andes Mountains and Volcanoes and the Quichua people who live and thrive there.I have lots of friends around the world.
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