People Like Pets Poem by Job Ombati

People like cats;
they crave as others they enslave.
Sleeping most of the day(s) .
Running a mind of their own.
Making pertinent cries; when hu-a-ngry.
Never willing to please.
But always craving for attention.
Craving for a pat on their backs.

People like dogs;
they follow and their pride swallow.
Dogging their bosses.
Seeking to please and approval to gain.
Kicked for their effort to prove loyalty
And yet still following some more.
But from a distance; never having taken insult.

People like hens;
they scratch and morsels snatch.
Scratching and looking.
Looking for non-existent morsels.
Always hungry.
Yet scratching again.
And again; the same ungainly spot.
Having forgotten that
they scratched the same spot-
Returning to the same patch to scratch.

Just like hens;
scratching, quacking with no care of what goes on around.

Just like dogs;
dogging, barking but not at the master.

Just like cats;
sleeping, meowing defiantly their displeasure to show.

People like dogs and cats.
And hens.

Poems for Humanity