This is supposed to be ‘National Wildlife Week,’
A Week Set Aside to Honor America’s Wildlife;
Instead, our efforts to annihilate everything Wild,
Are now being carried out relentlessly, both day and night.
More than 1,100 timber wolves have already been massacred,
As a result of massive hunting, trapping, and poisoning in America,
Since Congress stripped them of Endangered Species Protection in 2011.
“In the wildness,
Is the preservation,
Of the entire world.”
Henry David Thoreau
Music: Nature’s Lament
Many claim that our world is not dying
But I know in my heart and soul it’s true
Every year now, we kill more ‘Wildness’
And every year, more of Nature, is through
There are very few places left, on this entire planet
Which have not been adversely impacted, by our race
We take, and we force out, and we kill off, other species
For ourselves, we begrudge anything ‘wild,’ its own space
North America’s bears have now lost 95 percent of their range
North America’s wolves are now being shot down from the sky
The very last herds of wild horses and wild bison are being killed
And in the name of ‘Progress,’ very few human beings, even ask ‘Why’
We have also sadly already over-harvested most of Earth’s oceans
So we’ve now decided to murder the competing animal ‘fish-eaters’
Every year, we kill off more and more turtles, dolphins, and sea lions
Yet, in our quest to satisfy our own insatiable needs, we have no fears
As our ever-increasing human population and needs continue to grow
There will be less and less room and resources left, for anything ‘wild’
And the world we’ll be leaving to the future generations which follow us
Will be devoid of all ‘wild,’ and will look nothing like mine did as a child
We continue to blow up our mountaintops and pollute our water supplies
We continue to spray toxic poisons on our food crops and on our lawns
As a result, the birds, bees, and butterflies are all now rapidly declining
And one day soon, we will awaken to an eerie, silent, nature dead dawn
So today, I thank God that over the course of my lifetime,
I was able to see so much of His Wondrous Wild Creation;
And I very sadly agree with old Thoreau and so many others,
That without ‘Wild,’ there will be only life-ending devastation.
©National Wildlife Week 2013, Mr. Ed
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Your poem however is right on!
Peace, love and abundant blessings,
John Michael
when i see this picture and read your words.
No more to say.
john
It Hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lady Vivian
Rebecca
A leaf has fallen for every creature lost. Let us not give in.
Lady Mary Ann
Ron
without supporters like us to make a stand for them...
Love and Light
Lily
budd