Friday 18 July 2008

ELEPHANTASTIC


I remember there once lived elephants proud and free in the jungle.
No one could threaten them, and people treated them almost like supernatural beings, when they proudly entered the herd and trumpeted their arrival at the watering.

Much later the people found out how they could tame these mighty animals, and not long afterwards went elephants log through the jungle, and transported the people secure over unsafe rivers.
Kings and nobles loved their elephants, and paraded them happy with the beautiful costumes in nice colors; demonstrating their right to the throne from the elephants back.
Was there ever a war, the elephants went in the frontlines to take off the worst.
Later came the computers, and the elephants were oldfashioned.

Machines was now able to work at night as well as during the day, and even if the elephants were big and strong they needed to rest sometimes.
They needed to bathe in the river, they needed to play and gathering with other elephants.

Nobles did not fancy elephants as well as before.
Machinery and tall buildings gave them the gloss they needed, and the weapons were now so strong that not even elephants managed to stand up against them.


Today many elephants make their living through carrying tourists on their mighty back, and they dream about the old times.
Because there no longer is so much suitable work for the elephants, they are often led into the wild jungle and set free.

There those tame elephants will have to make it for themselves.

As well as they can.