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Farewell My Badger Friend

>I sent the following poem to my old employers.  The RSPCA A year ago as the Badger was being exterminated in certain areas.  Unfortunately, now it is in even more so I hope you do not mind if I share this poem with you.

FAREWELL MY BADGER FRIEND

All this land was ours once, oh so long ago.
Then man bought his cattle in, to share our pasture so.
Now they want to remove us, by killing us you see.
To try and eradicate the disease they call TB.
A nasty disease is TB of that there is no doubt.
But when I was here alone, there was none about.
So humans must have brought it, on a cow or two.
Now I’ve got to pay, for the mistakes you do.
So as you kill me and my friends, humanely I hope so.
I really hope it’s worth it, and that TB does go.
Be sad when you see my pasture where I did belong.
Bare of all the baggers who have all now gone.
Perhaps you will not kill us all, but I expect you will.
If not I hope I escape, I’ll really try I will.
But as you humans are so wise, or so they say you are.
Why don’t you vaccinate your cows, and leave us where we are.
You see I am TB free there is no harm in us.
And if you vaccinate your cows, they can live with us.

Spread the word my friends, if you do agree.
It’s better to save wildlife, than kill it off you see.
Well that is just the point, I really am so vexed.
For when the Badger's gone, who will be the next.


Please feel free to use the above poem as you wish, it’s too late for many Badgers but who knows if enough public support can be obtained perhaps the powers that be might reconsider their decision. It seems strange to me that so much interest can be shown of wild animals now extinct from bygone ages that here in the 21st Century  man is hell bent on destroying a species, the mind boggles.<

Copyright © Stanley Harris | Year Posted 2016

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Jan Allison Date: 9/26/2016 6:05:00 PM Keep on campaigning Stanley - we have no badgers on our Island or foxes or squirrels but that is because they haven't been introduced here:-) hope the foot is healing:-) hugs Jan xx Login to Reply Stanley Harris Date: 9/26/2016 8:24:00 PM If you have not got them, I will be honest and say do not introduce them as either might upset the balance you have. Unfortunately we have hunting, & shooting people of power in high places so animals dying is their pleasure pastime when not bombing Syria. The leg is paining me, but my toes beat in time to the Overture of Morphine lol Thank you.

Darlene De Beaulieu Date: 9/22/2016 2:46:00 PM Yes man is bent on destroying nature it boggles my mind.Nature needs the forest to live.But man is destroying the forest to.Where will the animals live without the forest?Your poem has good points. Login to Reply Stanley Harris Date: 9/23/2016 12:02:00 PM Thank you, unfortunately I have no political clout, or would sort a few things out. The Woodland Trust is a charity trying to restore natural woodlands, hence encourage wildlife. The Government Forestry Commission, whatever, being a commercial one of course profit before wildlife.