“Meha”

COnsisting of just keratin
and calcium The horn
creation gave to Rhino’s
Tragically It is sawn
Off by ignorant poachers
Who destroy the animals face
And often leave the calf behind to die
A human race

To realise their contract
To get the horn to where
Its processed often through Mozambique
And out of there by air
To Vietnam where it is thought
To enter the debate
Processed into pills and potions
Where the Chinese traditionalists state

It be a wondrous medicine
In actuality
Its a fable on the table
Of human misery
It disregards the recipient
And the child that maybe is there
And AFRica is reeling from the victims
And the despair

And here we think of a family
The mother was cut through
And left to bleed in agony
and what does her baby do
Imagine how a mother feels
In So much agony
She tries to come to terms
With Knowing her baby cannot be

It must be total mayhem
For a mother to conceive
That not only is she dying
But her child too may believe
She neglected her and
And thus it be
Her baby will also die
Cuddled up and covered in blood
Asking creation why.

Into absolute confusion
And an exhaustive state
Where CPR was possible
And a need to resuscitate
Compressions were done manually
For this cardiac arrest
Needs empathy and immediacy
And love and care to test

“MEha”was resuscitated
She luckily made it through
Unlike so many others
Who were not found
So a few
are, But the need is urgent
And we have to come to terms
We have to find these babies
These wondrous pachyderms

Ignorance and evil intent
Is taking its toll
A baby lost,its mother
Lost its endearing soul
Oblivion was suddenly
A possibility
Nullified by what was truly
Criminality

Its baseless groundless torment
Unfounded yet its true
With unimagined solace
For a baby most will do
The obvious just snuggle up
To their dying mother, and
When her life just slips away
They will never understand

The void into which they had fallen
Born out of sin and greed
Miscast in this drama
Where absurdity does lead
With such ignorance a fore thought
And such criminality
Rhino poachers should be caught
And killed immediately

For me that is the only sentence
That might stop this rut
CHina and Vietnam need a programme
For the door is being shut
Keratin and calcium are not medicines at all
There is nothing magic
But what is tragic
Are the animals that fall

Extinction is now coming
This carnage has to be
Stopped so no more victims
And poachers they must see
The writing on the wall now
AFRICA Must stand strong
any poachers caught with horns
Will die will join the throng

Of the vile and evil people
Buried in a unmarked grave
The pachyderms need protection
And africa can save

Them and its face forever
It has to make this be
Send a message to shock them all
Of this criminality
That really is all pervading
In AFRICA today
So many orphaned babies
With little time to play