Baby breakups poor little elephants

Such ignorance such selfishness
Zimbabwe what to do
You were gifted pachyderms
To live their whole life through
A so so social being
Intellectual suicide
Where is your lateral thinking
Telepathy aside

A baby needs it’s mother
Deep thought and reverie
Self communing meditation
Day dreaming constantly
And you an experienced country
Creation trusted thee
Why uninterested
How now can that be

Unconcerned and apathetic
To the overcurious way
Your duplicity and disregard
It’s flippant I would say
To just pay no Attention
To the baby and his need
They truly love stargazing
And you know where that can lead

Oblivious of danger
Always lost in thought
Engrossed and then diverted
Where evidence is sought
To concentrate on financial gain
It’s unworkable for me
The likelihood what it will do
Is destroy the family

Forlorn hopes bring sadness
And true uncertainty
What will be a difficult future
Vacillating constantly
There is no force of argument
No rationality
The elephants are wondering
Why they have to be

Split up from their mothers
And shipped so far away
Really what grounds are there
Just to look the other way
How can they hang together
Being worlds apart
Eyes so full of tears in fact
And a broken heart

A flaw in the argument
Misled and left to pine
Due to short-termism
There life time on the line
Your one track mind
Misjudging
Their fallibility
You are so unrealistic
Some reason you can’t see

Perhaps that light-bulb moment
When credibility
Kicks in and they lapse
Into a world of weird naïveté
Lost in a foreign country
Blundering about
Lonely and deluded
Uncorrected and in doubt

No authority to speak of
Except the bull hook and
The frantic and the angry
That comes from either hand
What is cruel disappointment
Frustration and regret
unfulfilled expectation
The clock alas seems set

On humiliation
On denial all the way
The teaching makes so little sense
And just brings me dismay
Zimbabwe you upset me
Disturb me through and through
125 babies shipped in eight years
Down to you

Mistakes made and repeated
Deceitfulness is high
Swindling skulduggery
That really mystify
125 babies their falsetto
I can hear
All their sobbing undertones
Speak loudly in my ear

The CITES went as follows
87 in favour of stopping elephants being shipped off to overseas zoo’s
29 against not be allowed to ship them
25 abstained so basically we’re cowards