The Beast In the Cage

Careering down a motorway

Towards horizon's fields,
A caged beast looks to future days
Where steel and concrete yield.

The verdant peaks pass by his sides

With life's forbidding haste.
Those fecund lands he prophesied,
Missed junctions gone to waste.

Our circus beast, without much help,

Could make his breakout here,
But for the tarred conveyor belt
Of speeding metal fear.

The bars that hold him safe for time

Have quelled his hapless rage,
A tomb to his lethargic crimes:
The Present's moving cage.