I am an old wild monkey who is just lost in the forest – my only home. Days ago, after humans cut all the trees down on the mountains, I was caught for failing to find a shelter, and now I am on a van journey which is straight to its destination. A human zoo. I loath to be an animal exhibiting and entertaining those humans who ruthlessly destroyed my dear lifelong home.
The forest was my birthplace, and I have nearly spent my whole life there. Looking back, although everyday seemed to be a replication of the one before, I felt happy and fulfilled. However, one can never tell what would happen to him next.
Those nightmarish days looming with deafening machine motor sounds, blending with annoying and heartbreaking grating and crashing sounds of tree-cutting, cannot go away from my head. Looking at the bald mountain covering with messy, tramped weed and bare Earth, I eventually convinced myself that it was definitely not a four-day-long bad dream or a mental illusion. Here comes an unforeseen trouble, a real disaster. In the cage, I am so unsure about what the future will hold.
Staying lonely and crying bitterly in the small, half-rusted and rattling metal cage on the rattletrap van, I trembled. All of a sudden, my heart lifted and my face lit up, as an unexpected silver lining shed on me – a crossroad which probably leads to a more desirable future appeared…
A crack, a large crack appeared at the top case edge! Suddenly the lumpy metallic cage seemed to have a mouth of its own. It opened and closed while the van bumped up and down.
With a nimble action, some courage, and a few seconds, just a blink of time, I could step onto this brighter side cross of escaping this imprisoned journey, the awful destination of the human zoo and get the possibility of returning to the wild forever.
A gush of fresh energy and intense excitement rushed through my whole being, and my eyes tightly fit onto the crack. My heart popped, my veins throbbed and my muscles tightened immediately. My mind screamed of extreme joy.
A window of opportunity!
Quick! Leap! Leap! Leap!
I took a deep breath, and off I lunged into the air and I eventually regained my precious freedom.
However, fortunately, I was found by an animal protection team a day after, and they eventually brought me to another old-grown forest and freed me. I examined those humans closely, but did not see the cruel expression of those who cut trees or thrust me into the cage, but very kind ones instead. They gently led me into a cotton bed, where my sleeping place for those few days.
The second trip was really my trip of excitement, as I knew they would send me to the forest again. I was so excited when seeing the winding roads and surrounding sceneries going backwards, and my heart was calling for the destination in every of its beat.
Eventually, the car came to a stop. All in my sight were huge trees with dark-green leaves, which trunks decorated with various kinds of mantles and moss with various colors and shapes. After those nice animal protectors led me off the car and freed me, I waved a goodbye to them, and leaped with my whole being filled with excitement. Finally my life came back to normal again.
WORKS CITED
Monkey Leaping in the Air. Derejeb. June 4, 2019, www. Featurepics.com https://www.featurepics.com/online/Monkey-2567392.aspx
ULink College Wordsmith Society 2019 