POLAR BEAR

Was it just fate he posed right there,
That Polar Bear I saw?
Then at his own domain to stare,
Not hoping for much more?
Upon a frozen mountain peak,
To see his world below,
Mid temperatures so cold and bleak,
The likes that few could know?

Yet I was there, nearby, unseen,
I saw what he could see,
An outstretched landscape, pure, pristine,
Reflecting majesty...
He saw his home, while I saw land,
He saw his life ahead,
I saw a vacant void God planned
And yearned my home instead...

The bear thought it was Paradise,
The place where he was born,
To me, a giant block of ice
That made me feel forlorn...
While he was glad to live and stay,
I saw no need to roam,
Except to leave, to walk away,
Back to my own warm home...


Denis Martindale December 2016.


Poem based on the magnificent Stephen Gayford
wildlife painting. Google-search phrases
gayford prints and Stephen Gayford poetry
and also for Heaven and Earth Designs...


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