The Elephant Fort

The Elephant Fort
Black beauties in chains-
Before the ticket counters,
A long queue does creep
To scatter near the black wonders.
 
Ears and tails always move,
Ruminating the rhythms of forest.
Elephants are inside the fort,
Exposed to the sky barest.
 
I hear the hushed emotions
In the clinking of chains.
Hearts  smoulder in;
Eyes emit lava of pains.
 
Burning red wild flowers
And tickling streams,
Each elephant longs I know:
But dreams die in chains.
 
 
Anakotta(a fort for the elephants) at Punathur,near Guruvayur in  Kerala, India is a tourist place, where you see a large number of elephants together. All are chained.