A Visit To The Zoo Poem by Sitabz Garg

By the bedroom window
There is a photograph,
Of our family trip to the zoo.
my wife posing for a photo
with my son and daughter
And me behind the camera,
They say cheese, and I click.
After all these years
I lie in my bed, and see that photo
By the window,
the first ray of sun
on my wife's face
and the merry children
with two zebras in the background.
A few months ago,
I visited the zoo,
Alone,
With my wife gone
And my children well off and married
I looked around and saw
What I came to see,
With the lions, tigers and chimpanzees,
Much has changed
And yet everything's the same.
That night I went to bed
And dreamt of zebras
And my wife wearing stripes.
She asked me to take a picture
And as she posed,
I asked her to stop moving so
I took the shot
with zebras in the background
smiling.