The Animal Speaks. Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

I remember my childhood as an elephant
My parents guided me to to the inner forest
They taught me to swim in nearest river
They loved me even while when I behaved crazy
I remember the fellow animals looked on me
With kindness, love, affection and pride
I remember the earlier days of my gradual growth
My little tusks, my body, my image in water
The forest was my dwelling place, as I thought
One day I tricked to fell in a pit humans made
They caught me in captivity, and I cried so much
They trained me, torturing my body and mind
They taught me to abide their rules of acts
I followed them and their instructions helplessly
Now the life is so terrible, in this summer days
So helpless, nothinghelps or soothes my woes
Hoping for the worst to come to my life.