A Tangled Perspective

Hunting, fishing, working with living things,

Are examples of values

Largely lost,

And unfortunately escape,

Our Urbanised lives.

We’re afraid to touch it — or lose control,

To embrace the great wide open and

To leave the offices payroll.

In our oh so brilliant,

Urbanised lives!

Like captive mink, bred in ‘humane cages,’

Working longer hours for ‘The Don’

Just to increase our personal wages.

Surely it’s an oxymoron

which will carry on extending, through the ages.

But where has our wild side gone?

Would we even survive?

Life and death outside of our urbanised lives?

“That’s what we call the Superblanket,”

Just plodding on — taboo after taboo.

Furs and animal skins being embraced,

But there are some protestors who

Let us know about our own disgrace.