Captured 40 years ago
from the wild of Iceland, she
was taken to Marine land in Canada to be
their prisoner arrested just for being free
a hostage for no reason
a convict actually
a slave their slave to work all day
to entertain and be
beholden to the corporation
for all eternity
Canada pursued her
trapped her made her be
that prisoner that bloody slave
she never would be free
again to sail the ocean
to swim and be at play
she would have to be their slave
with her freedom would have to pay
she has had to mother 5 calves
all have died
Athena was the last one
at 6 years she did glide
back down to the Summerlands
she’d given up for she
was saddened by her mothers loss
of honest liberty
and now she pines in loneliness
inside the concrete tank
dreaming of her babies
and of her life now rank
with misfortune and with sadness
and waits for her time to come
hopeful she can join her babies
and becoming numb
to the human prison she’s been forced
to stomach night and day
at least a sea pen would be better
the price she’s had to pay
immense in real terms actually
when Marine Land took control
and they intervened in her destiny
when they stole her soul