A small bear story

One day at the Calgary Zoo,

a polar bear killed another polar

bear by holding his head under

water until he drowned.

People were horrified that such a

huge fluffy beast could be so cruel.

People thought it was a tragedy.

What do people know?

It’s all a matter of perspective.

For all we know it could have been

a love story.

Who knows what those bears get to

talking about in the middle of the

night.

Maybe the one polar bear told the

other polar bear that he just

couldn’t take it anymore.

There was no where to run.

All they ever got to eat was dead

frozen fish.

And what about all those people

staring at them all day long. And

taking flash photo after flash photo

even though they weren’t suppose

too.

Maybe all the one polar bear had to

look forward to was the dark the of

night.

And the night wasn’t even that

dark, because the polar bears lived

in a zoo next to Memorial Drive in a

big money city with big bright lights.

It’s possible that with the endless

click click click of the

cameras, something went click

click click inside the head of one of

the polar bears.

There were several attempts at

self- drowning.

The one polar bear would

swallow enough water to sink

himself to the bottom of the

small pool in the zoo enclosure.

He would lay there, hoping against

all hope that the weight of his

mammalian bulk would be enough

to keep him from rising up to the

surface again.

But time after time gravity

betrayed him and the inevitable

resurrection came.

So one day, the one polar bear

told the other polar bear about

how he suffered.

Then the one polar bear asked the

other polar bear to hold his head

underwater until it was done.

And the asked polar bear said yes

and it was done.

Not in the privacy of night when the

zoo is closed, but in broad daylight

as the people watched and their

camera’s clicked and their flashes

flashed.

It’s almost like those polar bears

were trying to tell the people

something, doing the do in the

broad daylight like that.

Who knows.

The one polar bear didn’t leave a

note and the other polar bear didn’t

really understand anything. He was

just doing what the one polar bear

needed him to do.

Was it a tragedy ?

Or was it a love story?

Does it matter?

In the end, the other polar

bear, the one who did the do, was

shot and killed.

Two dead polar bears. Hmmm