Plastic Paradise
Time's ticking for whooping cranes
wild buffalo and prairie dogs.
For their losses outweigh their gains;
displaced by cattle, sheep, and hogs.
The elephant and the blue whale
may share the fate of the dodo.
For their lives are now endangered;
like the dragons of Komodo.
Alligators and crocodiles
tread the fringes of extinction.
And the California condor's
future; hangs on its distinction.
Baby seals are slaughtered for fur,
and otters, for the fish they've eaten.
Lions and tigers entertain us,
yet, they're routinely starved and beaten.
In sanitized utopias,
we plant the occasional tree.
But in Man's plastic paradise;
there are no wild creatures to see.
(Quatrain)
1/14/2015
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2015
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