I Wonder
Sometimes I wonder,
As I sit back in my lone tree.
What is it all about?
What has happened to you and me?
I’m on my own now –
The last of my kind.
And as I watch you from my perch
I don’t think you’ll be far behind.
You’ve chopped down all my forests
And killed my kith and kin,
And put me in this zoo
Where I sit pondering.
I have everything I need
In terms of the basics of life
Apart from companionship,
My tribe and a wife.
There is no future for me now;
Nothing left for me.
Which is why you find me pensively
Sitting in this tree.
Opher 6.6.2019
I wrote this poem in response to a picture I saw of a male chimp sitting in a tree eating a piece of fruit and looking extremely sad and thoughtful.
Looking into the future when we have destroyed nature and set the scene for our own demise I found it easy to imagine his thoughts.