China’s growing middle classes
top the scale
and ivory is the essential
gift it seems
its iconic holds its value well
and always looks the part
and according to the Chinese
whose net is cast
tradition comes in here
but the commodity
holds its value well and sure enough
makes the required margin
its protection
laoriously dealt with
every day
when its given from the heart
it lasts in fact a lifetime
and this is what we see
a total lack of compassion
and a loss of empathy
black marketeers and traders
are on the case world wide
searching all the dealers
the parasites that hide
here there every which way
gutter snipes indeed
who pay out a kings ransome
and will watch the ele’s bleed
before they come to their aid
watch them on their knees
as the poacher man is in his plane
just above the trees
gunning down the proud ones
ambushing them at will
hiding like a rattlesnake
prepared to launch to kill
its all about the ivory
nothing to do with life
the Elephant is secondary
and all the man made strife
can never be disounted
for its ivory that rules
chop the tusks off rapidly
by those we know as fools