I once swam free
In the Icelandic Sea.
The ocean was clean
With no added chlorine.

Life was perfect
Nothing to disturb it.
Then the humans came                            
My pod swam away in vain.  
                   

Below the water was hectic
All of us, frantic.
Water bombs here and there
We swam fast and with despair.                  

Soon a net came around me
I struggled insanely.
The people simply worked on
My family, was yet to be gone.

I spy-hopped
My hopes dropped.
Franticly squealing
My pod, still not leaving.

My pod whistled goodbye
I tried to comply.
People hurriedly took me back
There, my life went slack.

Next thing I know
I’ve got to perform a show.
Day after day
No rest or play.

Do it right                                        
I get a full belly at night.
Do it bluntly                                                  
And I go to sleep hungry.

Why do they do this?
Use us, as their service?
Regardless, I had to keep going
Or my hunger would be growing.

I was kept with two girls
Who completely damaged my world.
They kept me up day and night
Tormenting me with great delight.

Transported yet again
Another tank with no friends.
A prison camp disguised by ploy
It seems to me I am their toy.

The others seem to share my pain
But to the world we can’t explain.
The misery we’ve felt since day one
Living here should be shunned.

They watch us through the glass
They say we’re in the upper class.
We live in multiple tiny pools
Only fit for clueless fools.

Is that all they think of me?
A shiny key to the money tree?
I simply want my freedom
Instead, I hold up their kingdom.

Strangers always crowd this place
Both in water and airspace.
So many years I’ve been here
Aberrant from life off Icelandic piers.

So I lay here day after day
Not  interested in any play.
Will my life end here?
Or will it end truly fair?

I once swam free
In the Icelandic Sea.
The ocean was clean
With no added chlorine.