Scalped and one arm eaten
a trainer took the force
of a killer whale
it was the pony tail
a, matter of course
a highly effective trainer
as efficient as she could be
dedicated to her task
but sadly all could see
how thoroughly out manoeuvred
by her enormous foe
TILIKUM had felt denied
of spirit, and we know
from his capture back in 83
at his tender age of two
immobile for two thirds of his life
and raked by females who
wanted to make a point and did
he had suffered long and hard
slung between the worst one gets
and constantly on guard
a ticking time bomb
and his mental state
became his way
what wild pods do experience
his malaise got worse
each day
his feelings and his memory
will be with him till he dies
a lost soul out of true control
his mood Sea world denies
his character
his experience
his might curtailed by those
who try to work the system
and did not pre suppose
his negative and creative force
they used his sperm for they
oppressed him and stole his precious germ
to inseminate and pay
his rental as a stud
his genes how they did spread
all the captive females
took it into them
which led
the world to see his greatest worth
his genes were passed along
again he felt hard done by
another watershed
He felt, but not Seaworld, they
ignorantly proclaimed
this was TILIKUMS destiny
whilst he was feeling blamed
imprisoned night and day, alone
cast into a sea
of grief and just existence
melancholia the key
the wildest spirit in the sea
a wretched captive soul
defiantly, continuously
in a soup of his own juice
with all his pain and misery
clearly coming loose
all his major visions
blocked by captive force
from his childhood
with his power to see
stolen there at source
resentment clearly building
his manipulation sound
TILIKUM is suffering
effectively being drowned
out by the attentions
of the so called human world
who took a tiny baby
and into hell they hurled
him, expecting payment
for keeping him alive
in a soupy tank of woe beyond
where he could survive
the feelings of a strangled wretch
grabbing back some power
seeking independence
from every tortured hour
A new dawn fast approaching
a potential to be free
from what has proved disastrous
to what now possibly
could be a new beginning
for the old man of the sea
who has struggled on regardless
through man made adversity