Desperation seems to have set in ( but no one was listening)

An outsider on the periphery
looking down upon
the forests
their diversity
their vastness
appears gone

the culprit is apparently
the Oil Palm race to see
the whole of the former jungle
converted which to me

is simply wrong and shows above
all else the corporate way
of replacing natural order
which creates this vile display

its arrogance, its ignorance
its short termism for
some profit which just happens
the rest they all ignore

the jungle was created
over millennia and
provides a perfect network
seemingly
unknown to them its advantages
its long term equilibrium
the key

its sustainable and supports
a growing structure
a long term real time synergy

The oil palm is about the complete
opposite
its at present in vogue
with the corporate world
its to do with all their margins
and their profitability
into their big machine
its all been hurled

and it acts quite like a blinker
for the bigger picture, we
as environmentalists are prepared
to take a wider and sort of see

one that just steps back a bit
and studies what to do
that realises what was there
was richness through and through

it was natural it was balanced
it was really well thought through
everything was connected
and was helpful that’s my view

and when corporates come into the frame
presuming they were right
because it ticked the profit box
they failed to watch the light

and now there are some victims
to this huge conflagration
that’s swept across the countrywide
in more than one great Nation

and many many species are
now affected seriously
as the forest lands we scar

this is just one tree,
one insignificant tree
for the Palm oil sympathisers
what will be will be

but its not just this tree or this plant
or this orangutan
everything is connected
and its music is unsung

and because it just all happened
man believed that he
was up to almost everything
that he alone could be

the master of his forest
but in essence he was wrong
and the price we all are paying
it now does not belong

Palm oil has a place, it has
but to inflate its importance means
the imbalance that it causes
tragically now leans

away from the natural order
and because of this we see
disaster looming everywhere
with the loss of just one tree