Freedom Remembered

In a zoo in a strange land a zebra stands flaunting the bright stripes of a collective band against the russett tussle of leaves that exit trees before a cold wind. He is far from the windswept plain of his dreams; that parched place where drought adapted trees wane, until at last renewed by rain, an over-night fantasy of growth glides greenly, quicker than evening-tide. Here, where Autumn has a strange glow, bare trees, steal the dapple from his coat. Knee deep in a pile of red leaves he yields the life blood of his soul, flowing from a freedom remembered 100 in a ROW contest -- 15 Contest Judged: 9/24/2016 8:56:00 PM Sponsored by: Poet Destroyer A 6th Place