FREE FALLING by anonymous
Suddenly our shifting shape
Morphs into another arrogant ape
And from our Alpine canopy
Short falls become our destiny
Mountains and jungles share common floors
Where creatures poor and flightless lark
And canopy heights are beyond the snark
Of jealous eye and sabre tooth
And newly fattened, the ape has fallen
Ungenerous to less favoured fur
And now gripped and pinned by roots that bore
The self-serving life the floor abhors
The snake and tiger, rat and roach
Now feast upon the fallen fat
A lesson how the mighty fall
When fortune favours the slimmer shape.
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