Thoughts of A Tiger in a Zoo
Let me tell you what a tiger feels inside his tiny cell in a zoo. The tiger feels slave in the concrete cell. Like a prisoner in the zoo. The tiger misses all of its freedoms in the forest where it should be lurking in the shadows, stalking its prey in the long grass near the water hole, where the plump deers passed.
Now he just lives differently from the way he lived in his original space. His rain forests, grasslands, savannas and even mangrove swamps. He didn’t have much space to explore and excavate, hence, it stalked in the cage where he could walk only a few steps because of the length of its cage. It covers the distance in a few mere steps only whereas his own kingdom gave him land in abundance to run and hunt. To sleep under skies. To be respected by everything that breathes. But now, he is just a prisoner and this shows why he ignores the visitors and all the other distracting things.
Although keen and alert, the tiger feels very helpless in the cage. He stares with hope at the brilliant stars shining in the sky. He hopes for the day when he would be able to run free in the wild. And see his own face in the waters of the ponds. Chase his prey and eat his hunt. But for now, the brilliant stars provide him with some sort of comfort.
The tiger expresses his rage quietly because there is nothing he can do from behind the bars of his cage. He is helpless as his strength is now imprisoned inside the cage due to the fancies of man. He has lost his freedom and has been locked inside the cage. His freedom of walking fearlessly in the jungle has been restricted to the narrow cage. His freedom of being the King.
The tiger ignores the visitors as he considers the people to be devoid of feelings. He likes none because no one had ever tried to help him out to make him free from the cage. The tiger was in rage and anger because its freedom has been curtailed. He was forced to live in a cage that was very small.
The tiger is not comfortable in the part of the cell. It is his not natural habitat. His familiar home. He takes no interest in the visitors so it will be more comfortable for the people to stay and watch the tiger in the zoo in a fine manner at every time.