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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!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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Date: 5/16/2021 6:36:00 AM
And mankind wonders where these pandemics come from. He'll be the cause of his own destruction. Well written Sheila. Tom
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Sheila Henry
Date: 5/16/2021 11:23:00 AM
Very true, Tom! Stuck on greed he is blinded by the destruction it's causing. I've lived long enough to have witnessed the downward turn in my lifetime...lol. Thank you so much for your supportive comment and the welcome!
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Tom Cunningham
Date: 5/16/2021 6:38:00 AM
A belated welcome to soup. Sheila.

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