Speeding

Makomo Resources
A coalmine
Near Sinamatela camp
Hwang NP
A really big truck
Was Speeding of course
One look tells all
We can see

2 Elephants
Minding their business
Tragically yes It appears
And died in a heap
Upside down inside out
Permanently they looked asleep

Mining in Elephant Country
Has to be seen
As obscene
We cry for the wild ones
This evening
All our hearts broken
The green
Of the forest was spattered
With blood and with sadness
Broken and bleeding
When a moment before
Both of them feeding
One minute trumpeting
Next minute gone
Lying dead on the floor

Crushed by the wheels
turning still in the air
The saddest of sights
Its so bloody unfair,
The agony both shared
Under the truck
Bones broken wounds open
They had been struck

By a man in a hurry
Who just didnt care
Driving the through
Rough Elephant country
Aware
He could encounter
The beasts yes he might
His foot on the pedal
Thinking he had the right

And this was the outcome