Tiger In a Maii Display
Tiger In A Mall Display
resignation
oh green eyed one?
lounging against bars
of clinical steel;
sanitized sawdust laps
against enormous paws.
faux velvet roping
red as blood
stays the many gawkers
from your gleaming fangs.
a presence greater than thunder
in the Sumatran mountains
colour clear, rich, black and orange
you glow in the imaginings
of popcorn munching
sodaswilling, screeching younglings
pointing most rudely
at your regal self.
ah…but in the jungle
they would be meat, a meal
to break your fast,
soothe your bellies hunger growls.
in the jungle,
you were monarch
flowing through sun dappled depths
silent, immortal.
oh noble lord
none of your kin,
not females,
milky mothers,
capricious kits,
nor sires
roam the wild
seven thousand years ago
you disappeared
leaving us in silence
and shame.
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