Mankind - an oxymoron
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:13 am
Mankind v Man - Kind … Maureen Clifford © The #ScribblyBark Poet
Again the world’s in disarray – families torn asunder,
reverberations round the world, the toll of distant thunder.
As men with mindsets maimed by hate, mutilate and destroy
and use the weaponry of fear their terror to employ.
If we can’t save the animals of the world from extinction
what hope have we of saving us? For where is the distinction?
We need much more compassion for those on the land and sea
for they indeed are animals – but so it’s said are we.
And yet we’ve species failing even as we sit and speak.
The lion of Africa now has a future looking bleak.
Orang-utans are threatened we’ve destroyed their habitat
to plant palm oil plantations, just another source of fat.
Leadbeater’s possum might be saved, though Bilby feel the threat.
Our Sea Lion is vulnerable and Dugongs – don’t forget
the Dugongs , mermaids of the sea, who need sea grass for feed,
but pesticides are killing it off, it’s not a bloody weed.
There’s Quokkas. Quoll . Corroborree frogs - all headed for the chop.
Lumholdtz’s Tree- Kangaroo is found only at the top
of Queensland – the pointy bit, I see you know it well.
So tell me why you do not heed the ringing of the bell.
The Thylacine is now extinct for him we sang no dirge.
A wily apex predator, a stock killer and scourge,
highest upon the food chain his only predator man.
He’s walked our land since Dreamtime from when the world began.
If we can’t save the animals of the world from extinction,
what hope have we of saving us? For there is no distinction.
We are the smarter species so we claim – technology
is at our fingertips these days for all of us to see.
Yet man proves time and time again to be the cruellest foe,
prepared to main and kill and burn and destroy all we know.
The reasoning often unclear, religion, race, distrust.
Mankind’s surely the cruellest foe – that ever walked earth’s crust.
Again the world’s in disarray – families torn asunder,
reverberations round the world, the toll of distant thunder.
As men with mindsets maimed by hate, mutilate and destroy
and use the weaponry of fear their terror to employ.
If we can’t save the animals of the world from extinction
what hope have we of saving us? For where is the distinction?
We need much more compassion for those on the land and sea
for they indeed are animals – but so it’s said are we.
And yet we’ve species failing even as we sit and speak.
The lion of Africa now has a future looking bleak.
Orang-utans are threatened we’ve destroyed their habitat
to plant palm oil plantations, just another source of fat.
Leadbeater’s possum might be saved, though Bilby feel the threat.
Our Sea Lion is vulnerable and Dugongs – don’t forget
the Dugongs , mermaids of the sea, who need sea grass for feed,
but pesticides are killing it off, it’s not a bloody weed.
There’s Quokkas. Quoll . Corroborree frogs - all headed for the chop.
Lumholdtz’s Tree- Kangaroo is found only at the top
of Queensland – the pointy bit, I see you know it well.
So tell me why you do not heed the ringing of the bell.
The Thylacine is now extinct for him we sang no dirge.
A wily apex predator, a stock killer and scourge,
highest upon the food chain his only predator man.
He’s walked our land since Dreamtime from when the world began.
If we can’t save the animals of the world from extinction,
what hope have we of saving us? For there is no distinction.
We are the smarter species so we claim – technology
is at our fingertips these days for all of us to see.
Yet man proves time and time again to be the cruellest foe,
prepared to main and kill and burn and destroy all we know.
The reasoning often unclear, religion, race, distrust.
Mankind’s surely the cruellest foe – that ever walked earth’s crust.
