Save My World

A typical surge of music that happens when I am suddenly overcome with emotions….

It came on a day that I’ve seen just too many photographs of mutilated animal bodies, rhino and elephant, half their faces hacked off for products to serve man’s sick beliefs. And their orphans, lost without their mamas.

Suddenly it was as if the whole animal kingdom begged me to give them a voice…. Memories flooded:-

In the fires I saw fleeing creatures, I was overcome when birds had to abandon their nests with offspring that could not leave, the slow movers that were burnt to death and the emptiness left afterwards.

I saw the dead creatures on the roads where man chases with his vehicles without thinking, careless and arrogant, blaming the creature for not knowing that man’s road is a dangerous place. And I was silent, am I the only one that knows that the little hedgehog will only curl in a bundle on the spot when danger is sensed?

The perversion of man to serve himself with trophies . oh he could kill an animal! Sure, any human can kill an animal, it is easy. But do it rather to serve the purpose of the Creation. Eat when you are hungry.

Man’s thoughtless and inconsequent destruction of the planet, home to all. Typical of those who think it is a good place to develop. Some decades later man wonders what happened to all the wildlife that used to be there.

(And as the dust settled on the open eyes of the dead,

I heard the cry

of astonished creatures that survived and they begged)

Please save us.

We also feel pain

and we don’t want to die.

Save us, please save us, see us, please see us,

we are not here to die

(man, do you hear?)

Save us, please save us, hear us, please hear us,

we want to be happy too

Man you brought disaster to this world

where we live and try to make you happy too.

All homes burnt down in fire

our bones are man’s desire

Please, save us from this death, save our lives, spare us from greed.

I listened and in the distance I heard

only a memory that was left

and it told me

of agony

that once has been

life, a glorious face.

I searched and found only pain

of faceless creatures

mutilated

dead.

I looked and saw nothing but ash,

bones burnt white under the sun.

Skies turned red as the glow

began to grow

man’s greed is a burning fire,

want it all is his desire

consuming an old law

and what will be left

for protection

to protect

us.

The skies turned red as the glow began to grow.

Don’t burn my home

your fire hurts me

kills my babies who cannot fly.

and slow folks cannot get away

Your big machines roll

And what will be left

One day

Save us.

Believe, you’ll hear us, we are here to make you happy too

We try to build

You break down

What will be left

At the end of time…

Save us, please safe us, and you’ll save yourself too.

We all have one Mother,

Dying.

One home,

Broken.

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©Dawn Els