We're leaving you now,
won't say were we're going.
You wouldn't believe us anyhow,
We're escaping to a place beyond your knowing.
You can keep your ruined Earth,
and deal with the destruction that's growing.
In your eyes we have no real worth,
you look at us everyday without seeing.
The wonderful world we know has died,
yet you go on, knowing but not believing,
mocking all of those who tried.
It wasn't like this at the start,
things were good in the beginning.
Now you're tearing the Earth apart,
what can you possibly be gaining?
We are trying our hardest to get away,
for we want no part in the future you're raising.
But you keep "saving" us, forcing us to stay.
To you we're just beasts, instinctive and soulless,
yet you struggle to keep us in our ravenged home.
Do you really, truly care about all of us?
Or are you just afraid of being left all alone?


- (C) by Sloane J. 2008

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2009 02:19AM by thewolfpoet.

I like this. I struggle to discern what "you" and "we" represent at some points, but that makes it interesting and also interesting to ponder where the first person fits in this lament (author and reader).
Steve

I'll be glad to help you there. The endangered animals are the "we" and they are addressing humanity "you" (any reader of the poem).

This poem was hard for me to write, not just because of the rhyiming of the stanzas (I write both poetry that rhymes and poetry that dosn't) but because while
I support effors to save endangered animals and perserve their habitats I can't help wonder at times if these animals - if given a voice and an opinion - would really want to stay in a world that is slowly but surley being snached away from under their feet one inch at a time. I think some of them would want to go extinct, because what would be the point of living in such a human-dominated world were they are all managed and moved around and put in zoos?

I hope that helped you (and other readers). Thanks for commenting,