Sense Sonnet - Acher

Shy Guy at Times - LP Zoo

A young giraffe, I'm only two,
And still I am a growing boy.
Here at home in Lincoln Park Zoo
Sometimes some lone time I enjoy.
When in my habitat inside,
And human visitors come by,
Sometimes I get the urge to hide.
I guess I just am feeling shy.
And so I bend down on my knees,
Thinking that this will make me be
Shorter so that nobody sees
A now much harder to see me.

But then when I raise up my neck,
The humans wave - oh what the heck!