Saving ganesh

Elephants living out in the wild
Face conflict in dry seasons
When problems are piled
Higher for them than ever before
Because people move in on them
Clearly unsure

Farmers grow crops which elephants eat
Out in the jungle its hard to compete
With what is available so what they do
Is break down the fence and just come on through
Wild elephants wonder why fences are there

The bounteous offerings they wish to share
And cant really understand why they are not
Allowed to feed freely where theres such a lot
But clearly the conflict grows by the day
The herds are starving and they have no way

Of getting to villages its just the bulls
That cause the rumpus and so they dig pools
And fill them with water so elephants can
Drink and bathe sometimes provided by man
The DWC has used fire crackers to
Frighten the elephants so what they do

Is attack the people carrying light
Which they often do when they are walking at night
And there have been fatalities 2 people killed
And one sad elephant it was revealed
got tangled in fencing and died in the night
And protestors also which of course isn’t right

There has to be something done soon for we know
Shri Lankan elephants are part of the flow
Killed they are protected iconic they be
With extremes of weather in the dry seasons heat
Elephants need help if they are to eat
And drink but the people are short sighted they

Cant see eye to eye with the elephants way
So the wild life people have to agree
Perhaps bio fences might work and just free
Up the involvement with villagers who
Are trying to make ends meet thats what they do

Yala Park elephants do really need
Some help we have taken their land to succeed
They need our help and we need to see
Wild elephants living around us the plea
Is to the new government who could intervene

Providing their help in ways that are green
Hauling in food digging ponds maybe too
Learn to live side by side good and true
This is a problem all over the place
People want land at such a pace
Encroaching on wild lands laying down roots

And when the wild ones come of course man kind shoots
Frightens and injures and slaughters those who
Have had a right to graze all life through
But now they are given great fences and walls
And pushed further away by the two legged fools

I lay in bed every night and I dream
That once again we found the peaches and cream
Existence for wild souls, sharing the land
We are all earthlings and to understand
This true philosophy it would just be

Much much more practical for that vision I see
Of man being kind not just for a while
Not creating the conflict try to reconcile
A way going forward where wild souls and man
Can co exist together part of a great plan
Survival’s integral we must all pull through

Or may be we will die as all peoples do
Wars rage but generally talk has to be
Returned to and worked through for eternity
To be accomplished we must see eye to eye
Or slaughter the opposition
And sit still and cry

Each has its point if we all can agree
Its far better off that we do honestly
The great pachyderms have much on their plate
And living together i think would be great