A perfect allegory for the human race using cheetahs as a stand-in for humans under lockdown. Many cheetahs are now confined to caged areas where they can rest from poachers and threats from other animals. Some are orphans. Some are wounded. But all are in danger from numerous threats outside the wild world, most humanly caused.
Kudos for your insight into the human condition under the pandemic. Stanford has an Internet forum coming up showing how the pandemic will create a more sustainable world for every creature, including us.
The reality is indeed grim. They say the pendulum swings one way, and then swings back. I sure hope that's true, or we and many others will be gone and cockroaches will rule the earth.
"Rotting like us in ditches." Yes, it was bound to happen with the greed and stupidity of human kind. Sad but inevitable. You almost make me want to write again.
With a paucity of adjectives and adverbs, you have sketched a portrait of life that does not favor us and our centric notions that all of Nature is here for our pleasure. Instead, you have shown us that life is fragile from the simplest to the complex. Perhaps better said as "we have met the enemy, and we are it." Yours is a stark insight into this tangled web we weave around reality.
Intriguing read as one is left anticipating anything but the last stanza's segue into the poem's multiple metaphoric meaning. The mirror effect of pointing "at the endangered'animals'" lifts the poem to the level of empathy for all of nature... ourselves included. Kudos for the inordinate structure and flow.
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Kudos for your insight into the human condition under the pandemic. Stanford has an Internet forum coming up showing how the pandemic will create a more sustainable world for every creature, including us.
Ron
And we seem to be hastening it at maximum speed.