There has always been
\na lack of understanding
\nA kind of godlessness
\nAnd lack of care
\nElephants in Zimbabwe find themselves
\nSold off abroad
\nActually it could be anywhere
\nOne really lovely soul
\nKnown as Anna Louise
\nWent off to America
\nTo help pay off some fees
\nShe a wild sweet elephant
\nFound herself embroiled
\nIn circus
\nWith TOM DEMRY
\nWhere for years and years
\nshe toiled<\/p>\n
Circus known as entertainment
\nFor a certain kind
\nOf human who can’t see the cruelty
\nClearly they are blind
\nTo the needs of a wild elephant
\nAnd trucking them about
\nFrom town to town is awful
\nThere has never been any doubt<\/p>\n
Doing rides and dancing in the sawdust
\nRing of death
\nCarry and playing a tamourine
\nFighting to catch a breath
\nSlipping away in the heat of the day
\nAnd the sad wrath of night
\nWhere they
\nAre painted up and ridden
\nIn the pageant and display<\/p>\n
Elephants walking constantly
\nOn concrete find their feet
\nRapidly becoming sore
\nTheir weight alone has to compete
\nWith these unforgiving surfaces
\nAnd neglect every day
\nShackled in a cage or truck
\nReally theres no way<\/p>\n
Any African Elephant
\nShould ever end up like this
\nIn all these different circuses
\nIts chastisement never bliss
\nThey really get a hammering
\nAnd tbis is night and day
\nPoor food and no clean water
\nAnd No exercise all day<\/p>\n
The act is perhaps done Two times
\nNo socisl life at all
\nImagine being on your own
\nYou need someone to call
\nYou loved life and you loved friends
\nBut you are mostly alone
\nWith distant thoughts
\nOf loved ones
\nCondemned well Just to moan<\/p>\n
No one makes amends with you
\nBecause nobody cares
\nYou are just a nuisance
\nTheir selfishness it scares
\nThe daylights out of sentients
\nWho suffer as they do
\nThe music and the noisy crowds
\nAnd the bull hooks yes them too<\/p>\n
Thirty years poor Anna louise
\nLeft to her own device
\nLost in thoughts and memories
\nThey had to suffice
\nFor the circus is a lonely place
\nAt the best of times
\nLots of insincerity
\nAnd venality that climbs<\/p>\n
Up into ones psyche
\nIts demanding they are rude
\nPeople taking liberties
\nMost of them are crude
\nTravelling people tend to be
\nMean, they fail to care
\nAnd what do they know about elephants
\nThey just are not aware<\/p>\n
Disparaged cat called and treated
\nSpitefully ofcourse
\nThe handlers despite disease
\nThey will always force
\nAn elephant to walk faster
\nOr to get up or to be
\nWhere its cold and draughty
\nThey have eyes but do not see
\nHearts that have no meaning
\nSouls dried up and gone
\nTraitors to the buman race
\nWho shouldn’t be upon<\/p>\n
This earth no more
\nCompassion they do not know the word
\nThey kick and pummel my sore legs
\nIt really is absurd
\nThreaten with a big stick
\nA sword of Damocles
\nClearly I could have crushed them flat
\nJust falling on my knees<\/p>\n
People are really surly
\nScowling every day
\nNot a smile amongst them
\nAnd they make me pay
\nHeavily if I am limping
\nThey take the mick and they
\nBeat me any chance they get
\nAlmost every day<\/p>\n
When ZImbabwe sold me off
\nThat was a tragic day
\nThe anger it was smouldering
\nand has been
\nCome what may
\nI needed to hear some kind words
\nA pat a pet or two
\nSomeone to smile and say they cared
\nIt just seemed overdue<\/p>\n
Love had somehow been a quality
\nThat did not exist
\nI hankered for a relationship
\nSomething I so missed
\nAffection of the spiritual kind
\nA closeness Had been a hope
\nI worked my butt off but wasnt rewarded
\nAnd now can hardly cope<\/p>\n
I cry a lot at night times
\nWhen nobodys around
\nI have cause to regret my life
\nIn sadness I am drowned
\n35 or there abouts
\nAnd feelig 70, I
\nAm waiting for the day when I can
\nJust lay down and die<\/p>\n
Two tails ranch it beckoned
\nA sanctuary of sorts
\nTransferred there feeling so sad
\nAlone with just my thoughts
\nThirty years of wondering
\nHoping I would meet
\nSomeone who might love me
\nAnd now I am all but beat<\/p>\n
Retired to rest up dutifully
\nTo just wait for the day
\nWhen vinayaki comes along
\nAnd, whisks me away
\nOff to elephant heaven
\nThe saddest ele, me
\nHopeful in my next life
\nI’ll find someone who will be<\/p>\n
Close and spend some happy days
\nIn the african sun
\nFar away from the circus
\nWhen all is said and done<\/p>\n
RIP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There has always been a lack of understanding A kind of godlessness And lack of care Elephants in Zimbabwe find themselves Sold off abroad Actually it could be anywhere One really lovely soul Known as Anna Louise Went off to … Continue reading