Domestication

1.
Does this chained beast
Know its creed
As monumental once as
The owner's breed
As the glacial era thawed
And the hunter-gatherers
Found an ally in a group of
Wolves
That separated from the pack
And straggled along the
Outer limits of the encampments
Inconspicuous, yet noticeably
Near
Till they became fellow drifters
Until civitas defined them as lesser
Occupants
And the world got confined as a Man's sphere,
Some got adopted and managed the
Specious transition
Some strayed on the wild side of
Abandonment;
A speciation that gave them no prior
Intimation
Of the impending status change.

2.
As is the case with much of history
A shop front and a bit of aristocracy

Domestication

Met on the sidelines of transactional Comfort
Cheerfully trading in the outlandish
Craze for the most exotic birds
Just as once it was with the dogs
That were raised to substitute
Human company
Across many a generations of Pedigreed progeny
While standing guard at the gates
As well
So it was with the birds
That kept up the pretence
Of being pleasant
Even in their claustrophobic,
Designated hell;
Both unlikely housemates
Prisoned to their emptiness
Nobly curing their
Master's loneliness.