Extinction
They are disappearing
animals in the wild going extinct
livestock in the oceans going extinct
plastic pollution fills the land and sea
strangling the life from them
trophy hunters with callous compulsion
slay the vulnerable for social media attention
and man’s hunger for consuming
every part of these sentient beings expands.
They are disappearing
animals—as their lives are taken, they fear, and
heartless butchers share tales in jest “They
crap on themselves as they feel the end near”
shivering in line for their turn at slaughter
not unlike man’s own fear, if he faced the same matter,
their fate sealed as long as man lacks enlightenment.
They are disappearing
and what is our world without
humming birds, without honey bees and butterflies,
they too are going extinct, their population shrinking
casualties of pesticides and climate change
disguised poisons fed to them on the low
so too, as forests turn to ash and thawing icebergs flow.
While animals are disappearing
only time stands between man
and his own extinction,
as he rapes the land of its resources
his greed above all else,
and his avarice to take more and more grows
he too will disappear as sure as
Karma knows!
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