it is indeed the Western Cape
a graveyard for our once
resplendent Seals
sick and injured
many corpses
emaciated and it feels
entirely wrong
just skin and bone
no blubber left at all
Such devastation
and die off
they, unable to trawl
the Seas it seems
for the life giving fish
Capetown
and at Hout Bay
God help them
they are starving
what else is there
to say.
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.