Chains Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Chains



In Chains

In the valley where I live there are no elephants
and that’s sad for the children who have to go
indoors and watch a wildlife program on TV to
see one of those magnificent creatures.

My valley is far from Africa and is full of olive,
lemon and almond trees that make the landscape
look like its been painted by Van Gogh, friendly
mules too lend ambience, but sadly no elephants.

Saw an elephant, once, at a fair it was chained to
rusty iron looked forlorn gloomy eyes that often
cried but it had resigned to its fate, that was a sad
sight to see an animal robbed of its natural dignity.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Naseer Ahmed Nasir 21 January 2009

Man has robbed not only the natural dignity of animals but the natural beauty of landscapes as well. It is sad that mother nature is dying in man's hands.

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