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RAJU

Raju the Elephant
SHED MANY TEARS
Chained and shackled
For fifty years
Nearly a skeleton
LIVING on trash
While HIS JAILERS
COUNTED THE cash

Why do you still cry, Raju? I know why you still cry, Raju
Who is there to free you? No one comes to free you

Raju the Elephant
On India’s streets
Begging strangers
So he might eat
He braved harsh elements
While people stared
For too many years
Not a soul cared No one seemed to care - thx, Mike Z!

Why do you still cry, Raju? I know why you still cry, Raju
Who is there to free you? No one comes to free you

Raju the Elephant
Awoke WITH FRIGHT
EXPECTING CRUEL HANDS
THIS DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT
RIGHTLY hesitant
They held out fruit
With his cruel owner
In hot pursuit

Why do you still cry, Raju? I know why you still cry, Raju
We are here to free you!

Raju the elephant
OFTEN feLT the lash
FROM His owner’s whip
ACROSS his back
But with great elegance
He kept going
TRUSTING his guides
Big tears flowing

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde