“Yai bua and Dok Geaw

The old gal was a century or more
A life so long
Packed with many a struggle
Much of it so wrong
She was in the trekking
Giving rides to those
Tourists who could walk
Their lazy arses off
But chose

To ride a great big elephant
Clamber on its soul
All the weight of modern times
Grinding down control
The biggest of land animals
Pachyderms ofcourse
They can all be driven hard
As a matter of course

And so despite sore feet and
Backs
Their stint every day
Was slaving under the hot sun
Working was the way
Carrying our great weight
And the body and the fools
Who came to ride an elephant
Despite the trusted schools

Of thought about how cruel it was
Tourists who are they
They want to ride an elephant
And do it every day
This a great land animal
Who has the right to say
NO i am tired let me rest
But not today

They are forced to work
To earn the musty crust
Exhaustion comes
to everyone
Who labours in the dust
And hears the drums
She had had five sweet babies
But all of them had died
The solace of a mother
Sadly was defied

She remembered every single one
And for many nights she cried
All five babies gone to heaven
All of them grew inside
Her body she had fed them
Carried them each day
All through the long pregnancy
She had to work to pay

Her struggle was regardless
Of any pain she felt
She knew about the sticks and whips
And the mahouts belt
A quiet life was the best idea
To just work all the hours
And try to sleep and try to dream
And to reserve her powers

For thoughts and dreams
Of the next life when ever that would be
And so in 2016 they finally
Said that we
Are giving you the time off
And no more work for you
And i went to a sanctuary
Which I wanted to do

It was the Elephant Natural Park
A brand new place for me
Just to relax a little
Was I 93 or was I close to 100
A century of sin
No telegram from anyone
And altogether thin

And then another elephant
Called Dok Geaw came along
He was a little orphan
He didnt belong
To anyone no mother
Nobody he knew
And he came a snuggled close to me
And I took the view

I had lost my babies
And, he might just be
One of them who dares to say
At least he wants to see
Himself close to my being
And it occurs to me
That I can be a surrogate
Why not actually

And so that is the journey
He stays with me all day
We walks and talks and I am teaching
Him along the way
And recently the park have been building
Me a pool
It took a lot of man power
It took a lot of wall

But it is finished actually
And water bathing does
Soften up my muscles
And just give me that buzz
This propels me forward
To help the tiny one
And so we both have found happiness
When the day is done