imprisoned unpaid and ill treated

I am only young

so I can remember

being broken in

being tied down tortured

by those men of sin

how they hurt me

how I cried

every single day

how they hurt my mother too

until she passed away

now I am in a circus

a travelling kind of show

where all of us are prisoners

we all don’t want to know

no rest at all

no care at all

and bill hooked sometimes too

look at him he is carrying it

and he does use it , you

might not think  that a bull hook

is right to stick in me

but often he does

do that and I am frightened

actually

and so I just do what he asks

sit up like some fool

this is what the humans make us do

it does appal

any thinking caring person

the problem is that they

do not  come to circuses

they stay out of the way

its the daft ones who don’t care a damn

who bring the kids along

they cannot understand that we

dont do tricks its all wrong

my scars are often covered up

I suffer sometimes so

when they get infected

thats when the pain does grow

and sitting on my back legs

its not what ele’s do

and no one  seems to care about us

perhaps people like you

but no one else can hear

or see me wipe  away my tears

please boycott the circus

the travelling show where fears

waltz through every trailer

and every tent and cage

we are being tortured

that shouldn’t be hard to gauge