Colin Jeffery Poet Free verse

Mountain Gorilla

MOUNTAIN GORILLA


            Gentle giant of the great apes
            Close to us in temperament  
            With compassion and love of family
            Mighty vegetarian walking the Congo
            Hunted and endangered species.

            Silver-backed male
            Father and protector 
            Too heavy to sleep in trees
            Sleeps on the jungle floor
            While his family sleep safely above. 

            Babies cling to mothers’ backs
            Carried through the jungle
            With silver-back on guard for danger
            Loving family group of nine
            Moving peaceably from place to place.
            
            Villagers of the Congo
            Hunt and kill gorillas for meat
            Selling skins on the black market
            While hunters kidnap the young 
            Selling them to zoos for public display.

            Days of gorillas in the wild are numbered
            Soon only to be found 
            Gentle giants caged in zoos
            Paraded for human entertainment
            Great apes so close to us in temperament.

                                            Colin Ian Jeffery

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