An unexpected meeting?

Question:AN UNEXPECTED MEETING

We treat each other with exceeding courtesy;
we say, it's great to see you after all these years.

Our tigers drink milk.
Our hawks tread the ground.
Our sharks have all drowned.
Our wolves yawn beyond the open cage.

Our snakes have shed their lightning,
our apes their flights of fancy,
our peacocks have renounced their plumes.
The bats flew out of our hair long ago.

We fall silent in mid-sentence,
all smiles, past help.
Our humans
don't know how to talk to one another.

Do you guys know what this mean? I don't get the 2 middle paragraphs.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: AN UNEXPECTED MEETING

We treat each other with exceeding courtesy;
we say, it's great to see you after all these years.

Our tigers drink milk.
Our hawks tread the ground.
Our sharks have all drowned.
Our wolves yawn beyond the open cage.

Our snakes have shed their lightning,
our apes their flights of fancy,
our peacocks have renounced their plumes.
The bats flew out of our hair long ago.

We fall silent in mid-sentence,
all smiles, past help.
Our humans
don't know how to talk to one another.

Do you guys know what this mean? I don't get the 2 middle paragraphs.

I hear it differently. To me, it's saying that all living things have become unnatural, are acting unnaturally. People not knowing how to really talk to each other and avoiding intimate communication is as unnatural as a hawk walking on the ground and peacocks not strutting their gorgeous tail-feathers.

It reminds me of the Simon & Garfunkel song 'Sound of Silence.' Here's the last verse:

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Ist paragraph is that the animals have freed themselves
2nd We have lost communication with each other