Seals and Evolution
A circus seal about to die
offered up a last frustrated “Why
in evolution’s mindless zeal
did it make me a seal?”
Or why, if anyone knows,
was my potential limited to
balancing a ball on my nose
when greater feats seals also do?
Exhaling a final breath
our poor seal expired into death
with no hope of afterbliss
much less the opposite of this,
though, if a reward were pending,
it wanted to be with those
seals rewarded with life unending
without need of ball or nose,
much less the impertinence
of a clapping audience
addicted to pathetic
animal theatrics.
Copyright © Maurice Rigoler | Year Posted 2023
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