POLO,THE GORILLA
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Was it years of loneliness
that heightened your distress?
Or a self-willed desire to perish
that led you to hide dyspnea to a fatal finish??

Whatever the reason of your sad demise
all of us will miss your cute moods n movements
your pees, pranks, unique sounds n shrieks
as you jumped from branches back to the swing.

A star-crossed lover from Dublin zoo
you entertained us as a Bollywood joker
for long nineteen years in Mysore
at last to give the quiet slip to zoo vets
who diagnosed your disease
but had little cure for your desires.