The Dinosaur's Lament

I awoke in a museum

Underneath a great glass dome

On display in an unfamiliar place

In a future not my own

Strange creatures point and ogle

Coming at all hours of the day

Nowhere safe to run or hide

Why won’t they go away?

I broke through the glass

With a mighty roar and growl

Searching for others like me

I escaped, on the prowl

A familiar figure caught my eye

Yet no companionship to find

A statue in a mini golf course,

A mockery of my own kind

Another dinosaur stared back at me

From a poster on a theater wall

They made me their movie monster

But I’m not like that at all

My tail demolishes a building

As the humans scream and cry

I didn’t mean to hurt anyone

I was just trying to squeeze by

Humans in vehicles surrounded

With me in their weapons’ sights

Cornered, confused, and all alone,

I fled the scene in fright

In a secluded, wooded area

I made my lonely new home

Wasting away, waiting to

Be reunited with my own