Alert against ambush,
abjuring aloneness -
advancing altogether -
avoiding annihilation.
Awareness acute, always,
among attacking beasts.
Bolting, bounding,
bypassing capture,
circumventing carnage.
Crossing drought-dry desolation,
defying death.
Determined emigrants.
Endeavoring.
Enduring.
Fighting famine,
fatigue.
Forming families:
father, fecund females, foals.
Foraging grasslands,
gathering, grazing.
Galloping herds.
Imperiled journeyers.
Keen lions lurk,
loom,
leap,
liquidating life.
Merciless massacre.
Mayhem.
Negation.
Nadir.
Nothingness.
Odyssey -
open plains passage,
persevering,
questing.
Rainyseason's raging rivers,
ravenous raiders' savagery,
seasonal scarcity,
scorching sun.
Suffering
Serengeti traversers.
Thirsting -
undaunted,
unyielding,
unbowed.
Untamed vagabonds -
vigilant,
valiant,
watchful wayfarers.
What x-emplary x-plorers,
you zebras.
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Author Notes
If you've ever watched the life zebras lead on a nature documentary, you will understand. If all you know of zebras is watching them in a zoo, find a documentary.
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