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