as the sun rose the darkness wept

As the sun rose the darkness wept As it set it crept back into that darkness An old wolf wondered “what really happened?” “had he been raised …by humans!!” He could not return to the den For he was a “self-cast” outcast Uncomfortable with “wolf” ways Oh, he howled But not at the moon He howled at the wind For it had no past Existed only here….now Growled at the hawk’s shadow Envious of its flight He had been “rescued” By the “well meaning” “Tamed” by a wire fence Fed by a non-feral hand Escape – not a dream But a necessity He must be What he is Who he is What he had become A lone wolf Who wondered