Bushbabies and Bananas

When the rising moon calls to his soul       he cannot answer, he cannot follow Her shadow’s path weaving through the magic of twilit trees    as She glides so lightly through the sky, perhaps he catches a glimpse of Her against the smog and city pollution      through a dirty window as Night slowly creeps by He is trapped in this cage until his keeper comes tomorrow, when he is wheeled out for his part in the show,       degraded to being dressed as a human and playing drums, and the idiot crowd laughs and thinks this is good,     and that this is fun He cannot express his urge to swing or call, and instead of tree bark he has cold steel,     he cannot feel the gentle breeze rocking him to sleep in a branch, just the city’s noisy stories makes up the sadness of his real    His very nature eats away at him,     because you cannot trap the wind as it dances thro...

© 2017 He is a wild spirit       trapped in someone else’s idea for his life Imagine his despair of life in a cage, the pure frustration of wanting to swing free in trees and interact with his own kind, feel another furry body,       touch another wild mind      Feel his fear of the beatings when he hasn’t learnt to play his role correctly,           as designated by Mankind the Civilised, in this degrading parody of entertainment, dressed in an absurd guise of our shameful society,         served up to the mindless crowd that either do not know or simply do not care,          that once he lived in a forest and was happy there And when the hordes leave at the end of the day, the lights dim,        and the music fades away, he is led back to the empty silence     where time tick tocks away What passes through his mi...

Photo credit:  Karl Ammann Beautiful people…. I was honoured recently to be contacted by Karl Ammann ( www.karlammann.com ), a wildlife warrior of note (named Hero of the Environment, and SAB Environmental Journalist of the Year).  He asked me to help raise awareness of the plight of the #slaveapes  as he had seen the world roaring out for our beloved lions.   Together with Dr Dan Stiles (danstiles.org), Nick Cockayne ( http://www.apeactionafrica.org/index ) and a specialised team they have created PEGAS. And so world - I am afraid I need some more tears from you, I’m so sorry.    After the lion march, I seriously wondered if I had any more tears left in my heart or had I cried them all out…  I worried that I had become one of those hard people you see that just don’t cry anymore…  but I’m afraid my heart has been broken again…  actually as I sit here now I wonder at what point one’s heart says “eno...