Amelie Ison Poet Free verse

Dear Thylacine

-Written for the Thylacine, and all the other animals that have been made extinct. You will be loved. You will be remembered

Dear thylacine,
you died alone:
the last of your kind.

How were you to know
that, with your death,
an entire species would end?

The peculiar mammal-marsupial
that looked like a tiger
crossed with a wolf,

Unable to compete with modern dogs;
wiped out by the diseases we introduced;
and killed in their masses
simply because they were in our way.

You became the last of your kind,
living within the walls of a zoo— 

yet safer than being wild and free;
only ever seen down the barrel of a gun. 

Dear Thylacine,
with your death came sorrow— 
but you were the last to live and breathe,
and you will always be remembered.

I will see you tomorrow, Thylacine,
because you live 
in my head.

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