“Wild”

Welcome to the wild
Where tame animals dare not tread
And would-be captors
Should hide their guns
And hold their tongues.

Don't coddle me,
Trying to earn my wary trust.
Keep your pretty collar and leash.
I'm not your little
Pomeranian.

Just because I'm different, doesn't mean I'm dumb.
I see the shock collar hidden in the gaudy gems
That I never asked to wear.
You punish with the universal language of pain
When directions in your foreign tongue are disobeyed.

I know.
Oh, I know...
I know I'm not your puppy.
Or pretty Polly.
Or freaky fish...

I'm a wolf. A sly fox.
A wild thing with no part in your organized world.
Don't tell me how to live when you ignore my true existance
You can't cater to a carnivore,
Whose life is always ten paces from the fence.

I am the nightingale.Dreaming of life while you dream of owning me.
Your golden cage is my prison.
That protects me from the outside world
With the same bars that hold me captive.

So what if I'm endangered.
You afraid I'm gonna die?
What's it to me?
I think I'd rather risk extinction
For a chance to really live.

Sirius