OOSTVAARDERSPLASSEN LELYSTAD

Poor judgement
Created an anomaly
A place where re wilding
Was expected to be
Sloppy thinking
Lack of vision
A false dawn we got
22 square kilometres
And its going to pot

A National Park
On re-claimed land
The Netherlands how sad
You dont understand
The ways of Nature
And the need to care
So we now sit in judgement
And Their sadness we share

Reedbeds on clay
Little shelter we see
Herbivores grazing
Such sophistry
Loose thinking
Unfounded but sadly we know
2005’s winter really did throw

A hell of a spanner
Out into the works
So many animals perished
There lurks
Ignorance and arrogance
And the refusal to see
The obvious meaning
The animals be

Wasting away and therefore dissent
Naivete really
That was their bent
And animals suffered
Animals died
Re wilding the opposite
And now they hide

The fact that this park
Sees the rangers each year
Take out the animals
Shoot them the fear
Is otherwise herbivores
Cannot exist
In the wintry climes
What a terrible twist

On natural enchantment
On positiveness
On affirmative action
And resurgence no less
Of a blessed revival
Even a rebirth
Sanctuary heaven
Upon the green earth

Instead barbed wire fences
And high concrete walls
Vegetation suffers
But killing appals
Those who would make amends
Those who would try
And protect and recover
And so by and by

There is no connection
No corridors here
A wasted opportunity
Breathing such fear
Into hearts and to consciousness
That all can feel
Deterioration and collapse
Its so real

Withdrawing money
We ravage through time
Cripple and mutilate
Debts climb and climb
Animals suffer
Collateral they
Are the victims of manunkind
Who gets away

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Make headway lets hope
Something enchanting is within our scope