Pb the Polar Bear

for my two little energetic grandsons - Presley and Brenden... PB the polar bear cub, was born in a southerly coastal den, And for about 15 weeks or so, he’d stay inside his 8x10 playpen, He was born blind, deaf, and with only a few strands of white hair, And not being a twin or a triplet, made his single birth quite rare- After two months he would venture out, to romp in the icy snow, Where temperatures in the winter dipped, to -70 below- He’d often watch his mother, sitting by ice holes on the sea, Trying to catch a peeping bearded seal, for a delicious meal to be- PB too would become a master, at this waiting game, But not be very good at it, until after his 2nd birthday came- When grown he’d smell his catch, from forty miles away, The largest, most carnivorous of bears, seals were his diet’s mainstay, His loving mom would teach him, all the skills he’d need to live, And if he were in danger, her life for him she’d give, PB was amazed how polar bears, could hold their breath so long, Under water for nine minutes – they must be very strong! Thirty months would pass, before PB was out on his own, This 1500 pound bear, for 25 years, would call the arctic tundra his home-