All Indiginous ethnic groups
are feeling it these days
encroachment from the corporations
it isn’t just a phase
we are moving in on life itself
our reasoning is we
Think we need more land for habitation
Thats just what we see
selfishness and arrogance
and the end of liberty
Endangered people are seen as lost
They are apparently
many Indigenous groups
Out there and raped or left to die
swallowed up by cities
full of new age
computer techies
oil palm forests cacao forests
cattle stations too
genetic manipulation note
the MAN in that will you
but there are still hunter gatherers
Who live their ancient ways
ancestral thoughts profoundly speaking
Worthy of some praise
they hunt and sleep beside a fire
Warriors they be
eating mongoose and Baboons
and the killer bee
Honey, from the hives inside
the Baobab trees of old
They now are the endangered
and worth their weight in gold.
Tanzania proudly
Appreciates their worth
some 1500 left to roam
On God’s precious earth.
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.