Horns

I am decked out in armor

from my tail to my neck

with a really long horn

to keep you in check

the problem for me is

my keratin horn

is wanted by some Chinese

men

I should warn

others the poachers

who come by are armed

I don’t see too well

I am wild and not farmed

I can get an idea

of whose coming my way

from my delicate snout

but at the end of the day

if they ambush me

and come with rifles and guns

and machetes and god knows what else

then my sons

don’t stand an earthly

the poachers are here

they cut me about

really from ear

to ear

and then my  horn

my keratin boost

rapidly lifted

from me

its is loosed

and then the blood

soaks into the ground where   I stand

rocking

and really its so underhand

what they do to us

for this horn that we use

to dig in the ground with

they do so abuse

us prehistoric

armor and all

when the poachers come

we can then hardly crawl

blood loss is huge

and sometimes they do

use a circular saw

oh yes it is true

put me out of my misery

that is my cry

they have my horn

and so soon I will die

creation imagined my design

was sure 

but traditional medicine

they did ignore

that was my downfall

because of that lapse

I’m getting murdered

by these local chaps

paid to be guides

getting them near to me

and that is the problem

that exists tragically