And the people started deserting the shows
As for the cinematic entertainment modes,
The owners unable to manage and maintain
The teams and groups
With men and animals,
Managerial and technical staff,
Law and litigation doing the rounds
Clawing at internally
Felt it disgusting go along
Taking the load and burden
As the things seemed to be going against
Appeared unmanageable for
Changed scenario and public taste.
And the circus owner thinking of winding up
The sprawling circus with artistes and skilled people,
When the news broke it finally,
The artistes felt it very desperate,
Broken and lonely
When the animals started leaving
The circus one by one,
The horses, asses, cats and elephants,
The mahouts and the elephants seemed
To be giving farewells tearfully,
So the horse-trainers getting ready to go home,
Cats and dogs were taken away,
Lions, tigers and peacocks the forest officials
Came and took them away.
The tent-makers too went away with tents and poles
And the canvas cloth shading sheets,
The wooden planks were sold away,
The cyclists, jugglers, racers, jumpers,
Rope-walkers, dare devil drivers, bikers,
Driving in the cage dangerously risking life
Rotating and rounding it at a terrific speed,
All deserting the circus tearfully
Such a day they had not, the circus men
And what it befell them they would not have
That they would have to desert it one day,
The orchestra men giving music from the top end
Stopped playing the bands which but silenced forever.
But the mind and memories still full of
The scenes dancing before,
Their men announcing from a month before
Of the coming of the show,
Tents and bamboos falling before a week slowly
And the circus coming from,
The shows to start,
The day show, the evening show and the night show,
The focus light long deep into the skies
And the people coming from villages and the town,
People near the circus hearing the neighing of horses,
The trumpets of elephants
And the roars of the lions and tigers
We viewing from the gallery
Hearing the music of life, the music of the world
With birds, beasts and flowers
So pleasure-giving in the bonds of harmony.