Nostalgia Poem by Tony Adah

I am homesick
I do not want to live in a den
Where the lions and tigers prowl and howl
Peeling their teeth temping to count
I do not want to hide
From the free given meadows
Which few claim to control.

The dog feared and its domesticated
Lizard feared to say something
And it lost its voice
Snails refused to walk up to the scene
And they lost their legs
Millipedes rushed up and got a million
Slowing legs.

The bat went late and got wings
Without feathers but hair
And he died without a burial
For the fur animals refused its wings
And the feather animals said that
They do not have furs.
And I with everything I have been put in a den
I am nostalgic and home I am going
I do not want to stay.