If I had been born an elephant my life would be so much different!
I would spend most of my time with other elephants, so my size wouldn’t matter.
In fact, if I had been born an elephant, bigger would be better.
No one would make mean comments about my wide bottom and thick ankles.
My heavy feet wouldn’t get in the way and no one would expect me to run on a treadmill everyday.
If I had been born an elephant it wouldn’t seem odd that I ate only vegetation yet still gained weight.
I wouldn’t have to stick to the bushes and avoid all flash photography.
The other elephants would be content to graze next to me swatting flies at a leisurely pace.
The males wouldn’t be eyeballing sleek gazelles or muscular tigers,
no other possible mate would cross their mind but another frumpy gray elephant.
If I had been born an elephant a nice coating of dust would be admirable.
There would be no food support groups or anguish about the research on harms of diet soda.
I wouldn’t need to wear ‘the newest technology in bathing suits’ to cinch this or minimize that.
I wouldn’t owe the library for a lost diet book that was checked out with 20 others to find the magic cure!
Green grass would be extremely appitizing and water the only thing that I thirsted for.
I was not born an elephant.
I was born a beautiful, sleek, muscular panther that became an elephant over time.
The panther that still exists trapped in an impossible body.
I wish to be free and run like the wind but must slow down due to all the excess caused by excess.
The panther that is admired by many and feared by even more,
trapped and hiding in the shrubs and avoiding flash photography.
So use to sleek lines and shiny fur but carrying dusty folds of flab instead.
Watching all of the other panthers romp and play while I gaze at my heavy feet and swat flies.
If I had been born an elephant...my life would be so much different.
A bit silly, but something I threw together one afternoon when I was actually supposed to be concentrating on a whole different saga of poems! I was feeling very elephant today when I weighed and discovered that I had gained 10 pounds in one week. Hoping that most of it is water weight or something!!!! I decided to post this because I thought a few others might be feeling a little like elephants and less like panthers. Those of you that aren't......please incourage those of us who are
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