Where there was light there is now darkness

A shadow hangs across the earth

and darkens earthling’s lives

the rifles cocked

the bow has shocked the Moose The Deer

our knives

are out for wolves and coyotes

Wild Hogs  Mink and Fox

a shadow permeates the forest glades

between the rocks

the hard place and just everywhere

our traps are hidden by

a bracken shrub

a violent scrub

that path into the why

we trap’we lure

there is no cure

for earthlings anymore

the wilderness is under stress

to be feral its a war

of  attrition

and the mission of the hunter

and his creed

the canned the bloody trophy

and a target that will bleed

reared by man fed by man

cuddled as a child

and put into an enclosure

and expected to be wild

this is known as a dark force

this is man unkind

a heartless soulless brute

who pays the piper

to unwind

his vile his cruellest tendencies

his ugliness his strife

backed up by sharp shooters

who take another’s life

they photogrpaph

and cut the head the paws the skin, maybe

and import it as a trophy for their psychopath friends to see

once there was light now darkness

pervades

and all we see

and hear is earthlings crying out

begging to be free

of all this so called hunting

of all this so called pain

of all this so called torture

seemingly so invain