South African Farmers
once many grew
fruits in the sunshine
but sadly their view
of food for the people
and export abroad
disregarded their earnings
it felt like t no reward
they moved onto Lions
harvesting Lions
petting the cubs
humanising them all
supplying the hunters
with victims
their school
of thought was more profits
from killing big game
criminality surfaced
exploitation by name
drugged up containment
released for a kill
the bones shipped to vietnam
the blood they did spill
on a regular basis
from devious men
who could shoot
what they thought
were wild sadly when
the farmed lions
were placed where the hunters could shoot
it brought in a vast bounty
a great deal of loot
productivity up
cruelty too
getting overseas workers
to work yes all through
volunteers
thinking
they were helping the cause
hand over fist
no time to pause
full on criminality
cruelty too
these stations of filth
were a vile kind of zoo
this is not farming
its squalor and pain
blood Lions the guilty
an ugly campaign.
South Africa knows
what is happening here
criminality took over
spreading its fear.
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.