The Orangutan’s great sensitivity also inspired by my friend Michelle Desilets

The Great Apes hold such love
within their being
Their eyes portray such
feeling
they all seeing
They live high in the canopy
and up there they can be
Aware of all the happenings
and are, for they are key

Logging out the forest
loss of habitat
loss of one’s surroundings
is stressful, where we’re at
allows us to put roots down
to satisfy our soul
to calm ourselves
and know ourselves
and be in some control

But the great trucks and the saws
and axes rumble
slash and burn is thunder to
our ears
the acrid smell of smoke
cuts through our senses
and heightens in us millions
of new fears
our favourite trees, the fruits
we love to sample
like highways in the sky
where we peruse
all that’s happening in our world
and down below where evil’s hurled
as one by one our precious trees
we lose

Each baby that we have and hold and love
has hope,
innocence and a fascination
for every’thing that’s natural in this great
big world of ours
which honestly we view with gratification
our surroundings, and our friends
and of course our relatives
but as days pass we accept times
do seem hard.
Pollution is the revolution coming
Bush Meat yes we all are now on guard

the fires that rage, the smoke that chokes
the loss of trees that feed
all symbols of the new world where
its so hard to succeed
we have some friends, its very true Foundations
that do try
they help us and when we fall foul
are ready to reply
to help us in their sanctuaries
that is very true
but the best place for Orangutan’s
is the canopy, the view
is really from the elders
who have lived life to the full
they have suffered at the hands of man
they feel the forests pull

they know the writing’s on
the wall
as the corporates do strive
to clear the forests quickly
so that soya plants can thrive
the Pharma gangs are on our case
the Palm Oil people too
the American Bio Pirates
who want a piece of you
but hopefully we will overcome
with our human friends in tow
those who love us for what we are
Whom we do love you know.