Bear in a pit

I feel, so alone

and I am on my own

every hour of every day

he made me pay

 

once I was free

and, so happy

then he came along

and it, all went wrong

 

it was the zoo

I was going to

a strange awful place

to me a disgrace

 

where all of the day

I learned with dismay

what concrete walls are for

and what was in store

 

desolation and emptiness

deprived of  natural light

an absence of the basic needs

an absentee in flight

 

unsettled is my prison

my vision lost and gone

I have lost my concentration

inconceivably I’m on

 

a sort of static treadmill

that moves but goes no where

I am uninvolved

nothings been solved

here against my will

 

an exhibit pure and simple

a commodity, that’s me

broken and forgotten

is that how it has to be

 

I have become an oversight

the pit is my desire

the wall I hold myself up on

and stoke my inner fire

 

neglected as a individual

an experiment of sorts

for me its indecision

and just unknowing thoughts

 

they are the unenlightened ones

those who come to peer

down on me, they drop things on me

they cannot feel my fear

 

 

the absurdity of seeing

a bear against a wall

head bowed a condition

of insanity that’s all

 

hallucinations worry me

a mania of thoughts

they took away all that I knew

and I grew out of sorts

 

became so disillusioned

so downtrodden and sad

and my disappointment

is really all I had

 

zoo’s are like a desert

of concrete everywhere

nothing living to admire

even the rankest air

 

they throw food down upon me

its matted in my hair

on the pretext they are caring

in fact they are no where

 

wicked that’s their standing

on this mortal coil

shame on them I have to say

they do make my blood boil

 

no one wants to look at me

no one comes my way

I do not roar I never sing

and for that of course I pay

 

my loneliness is evident

seemingly for me

all that’s left is remembering

the lady friend that be

 

back home in the forest

I loved her she was mine

not really she was nobody’s

but she kept me in line

 

and now if ever I should

let her go then I’d be through

off down to the rainbow bridge

where I might meet her too

 

that’s all I have to think about

when one day, I die

life for me inside this pit

this zoo just makes me cry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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