Jane

Enduring undying
Eternal is she
A genuine attested women
And free
Of what was a rampant sexism
Which took
many to task but for her was a hook

She managed to overcome
With Her mothers power
And Her mothers commitment
She was her tower
Of strength and conditioning
That we can say
And Jane was absorbed
In the light of each day

She was absorbed by Africa’s
Sense
With the world of the primates
And the immense
respect for them
Chimpanzee’s were going to be
A lifetime study extraordinarily

Time was of the essence
She knew that she’d be
Devoting her life really
A constancy
She would endure many years
And abide
By the love and the care
Of being beside

Timelessness takes over
Endurance too
Continual and ceaseless
Its how you do
What you do with them
In an unfading light
For better for worse
By day and by night

Watching and waiting
With patience and trust
Interacting with affection
Which was a must
To get their forebearance
To establish a bond
Much solitude shared
To both then be fond

Their vulnerability
And hers too
Two minds with one thought
Running parallel to
Being together
Feeling the need
Complete understanding
Of how to succeed

Use of tools they were capable
And they knew they
Had a stream of consciousness
On any given day
Enquiring minds and inquisitiveness
Morbidly curious
And ghoulish no less

She found joy there
And sadness and ofcourse tragedy
When polio struck the affliction was key
That true unpleasantness
It set her back
The grief and the misery
It did attack
Made her uneasy obsessively so
It was intolerable as we now know

But her uprightness and goodness was there
Her base integrity which she would share
Her sense of honour and conscientiousness
Candour and true faith who could want for less
Cardinal virtues impeccably so
She stood by her primates
And received their glow

Its really the love of them
Her celebration
Her unobtrusiveness
Yes her salvation
Straight out of the top draw
Of gentility
Jane made her way
And is where she should be

With the chimpanzees probably
Forever