companies profit from capturing animals
and holding them for years!

does anyone know, is this imprisonment?

in a concrete box with no place to swim
orcas are held in captivity!

have these animals committed a crime?

their diet consists of dead fish
and in circles, they must swim!

is this treatment unethical?

I wonder do they wish to be free
or do they truly feel at home?

we must know, have they done their time?

somehow i feel they would love to do more
than the act of insanity!

is insanity doing the same thing continuously
and expecting a different result?

truly, i feel they are keeping hope alive
to someday return to their home

isn't this what prisoners do?

i imagine they would love to explore
the vast open ocean, chase live fish
and be with their friends!

or is this only a figment of my imagination?

Rachel Nichols

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seaworld-the-orcas-wish-to-go-home/