Calling back the jungle
Chapter 1
I was sitting, trying to set my trap fishing trap that will be used to catch fishes for today's dinner. Well,everyone knows my home, but not everyone expect me to be living in such home.My home is what you call a forest,you might say that's dangerous, but I grew up there, and the only family I know is my animal friends, they taught me a lot of thing,ranging from hunting to farming. But today I promised smoked fish for dinner to night.When It was ready,I called some of my friends to accompany me to the stream.
Chapter 2
Luckily for us, we were able to catch just enough for dinner.we were just going back to the forest, when we saw some men approaching, my friends quickly took to their heels, I just stood there admiring their complexion.These people came to me, they seems to be different from me, I couldn't understand their language, so communication was a big problem.I was told to come closer through a sign language. Before I knew what was happening, I was dragged towards what seems to be tortoise, only that this thing was huge and had round black things instead of legs.
I tried fighting but I began to feel sleepy when one of them hit me with a thing that has a plastic body, filled with liquid and a thin metallic end. When I woke up I found myself in the midst of some white people, who were just staring at me as if they expect me to do some wonders. I was given something to put on and my clothing was taken away. It felt strange on me but it was quite comfortable, after what seems to be an eternity, I was given something to eat,at first,what I was given,was quite disgusting to me, why on earth will anyone eat worms,but I was too hungry,neither was I given a choice. When i tasted the food, it tasted so sweet, that I devoured everything in a jiffy. These people were surprised that I did not use the spoon that I was given,after that I was given a place to sleep. The coziness of the material I was told to sleep was so much that I immediately fell asleep.
Chapter 3
Being a boy from the jungle, I was awake before sunrise, I began to take a stroll around the vicinity.whoa!!, do these people rear all this animals in this place?, was the question on my lips. One of the people working in that environment walked up to me and beckoned to me to follow her. I spent almost one year six months learning their language, they asked lot of questions and I was ready to give them answers, in fact I was so happy that, I will be able to tell the world about my adventures when I was in the jungle. They were so surprised that I knew so Much about animals that they began to involve me in their experiment,when I was told that one of the experiment will take place tomorrow, my little heart leapt in joy.
The D-Day arrived and I was taken into the laboratory, on our way to the laboratory, I was told that their main objective, is to use the specimen to test a new chemical that has just been recently created, according to them, this chemical is meant to improve man's life, in the sense of reducing mortality rate among human. When we got in,the specimen was an animal, and I was surprise that this particular species was there in abundance. I was perplexed for a minute, they saw my facial reaction, but I was told they won't be harmed. So I became relaxed.
When we began the experiment, the animal went wild, they tried controlling it but it was futile, I just walked up to it and looked at it in hiseyes,after some few minutes, it became calm. Then, the experiment continue. When the chemical touched the animal body, it shook violently and in a few minutes it was as dead as a doorknob. The scientists order it should be taken away and another should be brought in. Now I couldn't take it anymore, I shouted, this is pure madness, how on earth would you guys not feel an iota of remorse for what just happened, or didn't you guys know that, you just killed a creature and you just said “get another one”.one of them told me “you see what just happened is bound to happen, looking at technically, it is for the benefit of mankind”. I looked at him and said calmly “are you trying to rob peter to pay paul”. I excused myself, and left formy room. I wept at the cruelty of mankind, the wickedness that Is being served to lower beings. “Aren't we from the same source” I cried. I stayed in my room for hours,moaning silently. Finally I came up with a plan, this is gonna be, either a peaceful revolution or a bloody revolution!!
Chapter 4
It was exactly midnight when I stood up from my bed, dressed up in a black clothing,then I went out. I walked stealthily watching everywhere, I infiltrate the laboratory through an underground tunnel, when I got in, I immediately released all the animals. Immediately they all came out of their cage the security alarm began to ring. There was rampage,as everyone was trying to know the situation at hand. When they saw all the animals as they were all trying to escape, they began to catch them, but many had escaped and had gone into the wild. By that time I was inside my room already,pretending to be asleep,little did I know that the security camera did caught me. The next morning I was summoned, when I got there, I met ten men all looking at me as if I was a criminal (wait, am I not).They brought out a CD,played it, and I was watching how I got into the lab, freed the animals and escaped. “what do you have to say to this” one of them said. I was visibly shaking as a leaf struggling with harmattan wind. I dashed out immediately, and I was given a hot pursuit, while trying to escape I was hit on the head with an object, and I fell from the third floor through a window down to the ground and everything begin to spin in eye and boom!, everything went blank .
I tried to stand up,, but pain shoot through my body and I fell down back, I looked around, oh! am in an hospital, after few minutes,a nurse came in, then another two men also came in, they discussed quietly,the two men went away,the nurse approached me, measured out some liquid and inject me,then she left.I knew from their look, that I was in serious trouble. I looked around, I could only find a book and a pen, then I wrote
There is an outcry over there,
pleading for recognition.
A cry of anguish that pierces the soul of souls
a cry of a perishing being.
“We are taken, day by day,
to be experimented on,because of selfish interests.
We bear the unbearable pains,
And sometimes in most times we pay the ultimate sacrifice.
They say what do we do out there,
I say unto you, we are the givers of life,
You say, how have we contribute to earth's development,
but we say unto you, we are part of the shareholders of earth's company.
For we contribute to the enormous growth of trees,
by dispersing their seeds,
through the growth of the trees,
your waste products ( mostly carbon which contribute mostly to global warming) are consumed all thanks to us.
If we should then go into extinction, shall you fill our space.
Shall you wander into the wild, like us?
Shall you sleep and be waken up by the early morning dew?,
If not, why then disturb us,
Why not leave us in peace as of old”.
This madness must stop!, I cried,
Why can't we leave them in peace,
So that they may continue the life cycle of life itself,
Let us once again call back the jungle we once knew.
I was about writing another verse, when journalists, newscasters trooped in, asking me different questions. Immediately, security operatives came in and sent all of them away, then I knew that it was actually meant to be a secret experiment.I promised them that I will tell the world everything that happened, they only laughed and told me I had only few minutes left before leaving the world. I looked through the window, and I saw one journalist, standing outside. I threw the poem to her. She looked up, saw me, nod her head and left. Now am ready to die like a true hero.
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