My love affair with lions
\nHas taken quite a hit this week
\nThe three online musketeers
\nSlaughtered in a pique
\nOf frustration over predation
\nPoisoned and burned I heard
\nSo as to remove the evidence
\nOf the crime that had occurred<\/p>\n
It took place in Nambia
\nNear Tomakas village where
\nThe villages livestock were in kraalls
\nAnd a Lion Guardian was there
\nHe Had been trained to help withi
\nlion attacks
\nAnd so to hear these three
\nlions had all been slaughtered
\nIt really sickened me<\/p>\n
Watching the film the Vanishing Kings
\nBrought a tear or two to my eyes
\nHow their father had been murdered
\nAnd how their mother dies
\n17 years old and still trying
\nTo hunt so her boys could
\nReally keep the pride alive
\nHer nurturing was good<\/p>\n
In helping to hunt a big giraffe
\nShe had fallen badly and
\nAs time went on her aching muscles
\nAnd the Swirling sand
\nTook its toll and she closed her eyes
\nWeak as weak could be
\nDrawn into the desert sand
\nFor all eternity<\/p>\n
She really and honestly worked at life
\nShe would never know
\nThe boys had to be on their own
\nIt was hoped that they could grow
\nInto marvellous hunters
\nAfter the females left
\nBut tragically the human beings
\nLeave Africa bereft<\/p>\n
All of them bar one
\nHave perished all of them are gone
\nAll the promise all the care
\nIt just cannot go on
\nSo many must be beside themselves for certain
\nThere is no way
\nBack for this young family
\nWho all ,let their lives that day<\/p>\n
Now realise the timing was adrift apparently
\nThey were all for relocation
\nBut it was not to be
\nOnly the remaining brother
\nHas been moved away
\nWitnessing their charred remains
\nWhat was there to say<\/p>\n
We knew there would be challenges
\nBut these boys seemingly
\nWere going to be the future
\nAll males, all wild, all free
\nThree years old and coming on
\nSupporting each other well
\nSustaining their coalition
\nAt that juncture things looked swell<\/p>\n
They were learning and experiencing
\nThe rains the floods the strain
\nThey were working at their hunting skills
\nAnd we all could see the gain
\nA free nomadic roaming life
\nTo make their impression in this World
\nThis ancient desert landscape
\nWhere all of them had been hurled<\/p>\n
To learn to use the landscape
\nThe vast and shifting sand
\nTheir camouflage was perfect
\nThey could be kings of this land
\nBut up against those human beings
\nWho possessed their guns
\nThey really didn’t stand a chance
\nBut They were their mothers sons<\/p>\n
And Because she had stayed with them
\nAnd helped them all the way
\nThey very clearly missed her
\nAnd who knows why they did pay
\nSuch a high price in all of this
\nNo doubt we all may learn
\nBut poisoning them and setting them alight
\nHas to concern<\/p>\n
All lovers of wild animals
\nAll carers everywhere
\nAnd whoever actually did this
\nIn a moment of despair
\nThey had no thought whatsoever
\nFor those Lions and their family
\nAnd no thought of their country
\nThat is what I see<\/p>\n
It all comes back to selfishness
\nAnd money in the bank
\nThat antagonism really
\nIn reality it’s rank
\nIt’s eating up inside of them
\nThey really fail to see
\nThe Iconic lions and their place on earth
\nAnd where they ought to be<\/p>\n
There are many individuals
\nGiving their time to try
\nAnd help all the wild species
\nUnderneath the sky
\nAnd then the animal rights brigades
\nAll over planet earth
\nGiving their time to helping them
\nThere is a lot of worth<\/p>\n
And then one hears these stories
\nOf servility and pain
\nOne thinks of that old mother
\nWho almost went insane
\nHelping them to hunt and learn
\nThe craft before she died
\nAnd all of her sweet efforts
\nReally they have been denied<\/p>\n
poachers Hunters villagers
\nTheir haughtiness is rife
\nTheir disrespect of Nature
\nCausing disdain and such strife
\nSo they can pull a trigger
\nAnd stand their with the dead
\nSo they can show their ugly mugs
\nOn Facebook I see RED<\/p>\n
They talk up conservation
\nSwagger on the street
\nBasically they are charlatans
\nAnd many are the elite
\nThe royalty the hangers on
\nThe lords and ladies who
\nHaven’t done a days work in their lives
\nA lousy crew<\/p>\n
Who exist in their own stateliness
\nFloppy dressy clowns
\nDesigner this designer that
\nEven their hunting gowns
\nOf camouflage of so swish fabrics
\nLooking quite the part
\nWho come to murder animals
\nBut who haven’t got the heart<\/p>\n
To realise the importance
\nOf wild animals to us all
\nHow they shape the environment
\nHow they all walk tall
\nNo crush them smash them shoot them
\nNobility my arse
\nI hold you all in disrepute
\nYour charade is all a farce<\/p>\n
These lions were very special
\nAnd someone’s head should fall
\nThe vanishing kings have vanished
\nIn that wilderness now all
\nHave left and there is no legacy
\nIt’s lamentable to say
\nArrogance and ignorance
\nAnd a cretinous display<\/p>\n
Has seen off the great Musketeers
\nTo the Rainbow BRidge they go
\nGet your heads around all of this
\nAnd when you are alone you will know
\nThe wastefulness the priceless gifts
\nOf Nature that we destroy
\nWe are asinine and pointless
\nAnd will never find true joy<\/p>\n
Of the kind those Lions had
\nThat bond that man saw fit
\nTo break to slake, man is the fake
\nAn obscurantist twit
\nIf he could look beyond his nose
\nBeyond the village fence
\nAnd realise what Africa needs
\nIs the lion and common sense<\/p>\n
I was, moved by this story
\nThis lovely family
\nBeaten back by ignorance
\nAnd lost to eternity
\nThe futility of all of this
\nThe uneducated state
\nThe unconsciousness and na\u00efvet\u00e9
\nAnd I feel I must berate<\/p>\n
Those goons who did this awful thing
\nWho thought it through and knew
\nThey had to poison these three Lions
\nIt was right to turn the screw
\nThen burn their beautiful bodies
\nThe collars that would be
\nEvidence of their darkest deed
\nAnd their insensitivity<\/p>\n
There are a lot of broken hearts
\nOut there I know today
\nWhat will be no one can see
\nAnd few around can say
\nThat the wild Lion has a future
\nFor the evil clan abroad
\nAre killing them like crazy
\nAnd enjoying their reward<\/p>\n
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My love affair with lions Has taken quite a hit this week The three online musketeers Slaughtered in a pique Of frustration over predation Poisoned and burned I heard So as to remove the evidence Of the crime that had … Continue reading