Write a poem from the perspective of an animal of your choice, without directly mentioning that animal

I have to go

I have to go,

I have to flee,

This place, my home,

It's not safe for me.

Once, ago,

A long time ago,

We were free and happy,

My family and me.

But then the men,

With scary things came,

And cut our homes down,

Down to the ground.

Then they took all of it away,

Gone, to wherever they took it,

Gone, forever, never to return,

I have no home to return to.

Mum and Dad are gone,

The rest of my family is too,

All I have left is myself,

And running is all I can do.

I have to go,

I have to flee,

This place, my home,

It's not safe for me.

*Can you guess what I was?*