A Visit To the Zoo

By the bedroom window There is a photograph, Of our family trip to the zoo. my wife posing for a photo with my son and daughter And me behind the camera, They say cheese , and I click. After all these years I lie in my bed , and see that photo By the window, the first ray of sun on my wife’s face and the merry children with two zebras in the background. A few months ago, I visited the zoo, Alone, With my wife gone And my children well off and married I looked around and saw What I came to see, With the lions, tigers and chimpanzees, Much has changed And yet everything’s the same. That night I went to bed And dreamt of zebras And my wife wearing stripes. She asked me to take a picture And as she posed, I asked her to stop moving so I clicked the button, and took the shot with zebras in the background smiling.