“animals We Are! ” Poem by Munia Khan

I wish I had a thousand lives

Carrying my faithful veins

I could lead those one after another

Even a life of an owl I’d prefer rather


I wish I were not of man-kind

And with my animal instinct

The roots of morality could stay unshaken

Even a life of an insect wouldn’t have forsaken


I wish I were anything having a life on earth

With a better proof of the existence

Outliving like an earthworm, a fish or a dog

A reptile or avian even a dolphin or a frog


A single-celled Protozoa

A big tree or a plant

Even a snail, snake or a wolf’s life

I wish I could grant.


We can always be human

Meeting each day a wise new man

But the Animal Kingdom to which we belong

So, animals we are; this truth can’t be wrong.


Written on the evening of the 29th of April,2010