Watching Wildlife
Landlocked or freer,
animals at play;
aerial or aquatic
acrobatic the display.
Practising their life skills
swooping, diving, slipping, sliding
or simply having fun
running, jumping, floating, gliding
showing sheer irreverence
exhibiting exuberance.
Hunter and hunted
predator and prey
sometimes, this time
dinner gets away.
Who should I feel sorry for?
The hungry or the fleeing?
Impossible to choose
it's naked truth I'm seeing.
Life and death, in the raw;
nature red in tooth and claw.