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Date Posted: 15:26:35 08/07/04 Sat
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: dsl-80-46-188-115.access.uk.tiscali.com / 80.46.188.115
Subject: Panthera tigris altaica

Another sent to entertain me
I watch silently as the cub eats
Licking ice cream
From her too round face

Sunshine shocks
Causing parents to panic
Rush protectively
To apply sun-screen

Dirt streaked faces stare
As I allow a glance their way
Before turning away
Aloof in my dignity

Safe on my platform
I survey those around
Pity their emptiness
While I want for nothing

Except freedom
To survive or starve
And bask contented
Against a sun-drizzled horizon

Content after a successful hunt
Well-deserved
Rather than brought as habit
Or to comply with regulations

What is the point of camouflage
Where I am expected to entertain
Be observed
Rather than surprise my prey

Contentment breeds contempt
Restlessness
Desire for need and hunger
Passion for life

My purr is not of pleasure
But a reminder of times past
When it meant something
To simply be alive

Not on display
But part of the landscape
Alive
In every sense of the word

Do not bring me to this
And tell me it is kind
To leave me be
Protect me from hurt

When I need to feel alive
Wanted
And loved by my kind
Who understand me

Go
You insult me
With your kind words
And lack of understanding

Let my stripes blend
Intertwine with grasses
Merge into the background
Die another death.



7th August 2004

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