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Description: Hey all, it's yours truly with a brand new poem for you all to read. So sorry I haven't been posting anything lately, but this writer has been plenty busy with a little side project (I'm the revision process with one of my old stories) and you will be pleased to hear I've been spending a couple hours a night reading the Harry Potter book series (that's right folks, I'm getting into the fandom and am on The Chamber Of Secrets). Anyhow, I'm writing a special poem as a response to a nature documentary called Love And Bananas, An Elephant Story, featuring Lek Chalert from the Thailand Elephant Nature Park, in a daring attempt to save the 70 year old elephant Noi Na from a elephant trekking camp. I was horrified to see that circus, zoo, and trekking elephants are brutally put into "crush boxes" where they are savagely beaten with bull hooks and chains for 24 hours or even longer until they submit to do tricks and riding tours. Lek is fighting to save elephants brutally forced into logging and harmed by land mines, but she cannot do it alone. These beautiful creatures are dwindling as we breath and killed for their ivory. We must unite to save them, these gentle giants, these makers of the jungle. So, in that spirit of being an elephant lover, I'm writing a poem to hopefully help in that effort. Please enjoy and do anything you can to save these empathic beings, like not attending circuses. And without further ado...on with the poem!
Rated: K+ (just to keep things safe)
Ever since I was a child,
Elephants were simply great
Roaming in the lush jungle wild
Romping in herds of ten or twenty eight
With flexible trunks and floppy ears
A disposition of the sweetest kind
They always earned my cheers
Forever in my heart and mind
Squirting water in the lake
Trumpeting with all their might
Strong as a mountain, sweet like cake
Elephants are an animal of pure delight
I sleep with a stuffed one
Panilla is his name
By my side until day is done
Making life a happy game
Movies introduced me
Like Dumbo and The Jungle Book
Horton Hears A Who seduced me
Held me on elephants like a hook
But, now I'm horrified
To learn a terrible truth
Elephants suffered and died
Even in the days of my youth
Bull hooks and chains
Beaten into submission
Forced onto circus trains
And become zoo admission
Into the crush box they go
Torn away from their mothers
Put with elephants they barely know
Not their sisters and brothers
Such horrors I never knew
Tears come to my eyes
My heart broke in two
I can almost hear their cries
We must all come and unite
And their desperate plea
Save them from their plight
Set the elephants free
Elephants can feel
Emotions sparkle and shine
So powerful and real
One sang Baby Mine
Baby Mine, don't you cry
Baby Mine, dry those eyes
We hear the aches of your heart
Gentle and smart,
Baby of mine
Locked up in cages
Forced to do tricks
Shouted at with rages
Beaten with hooked sticks
How can people be so cruel
To these magnificent creatures?
So kind, amazing, and cool
In all their powers and features
With all the suffering they endure
Logging, land mines, and beatings
Rendered afraid and unsure
No more love and family greetings
Creatures of the jungle
Path makers and fertilizers
Caught up in such a bungle
By wicked advertisers
No longer can they suffer
Freedom they shall see
Help before it gets tougher
Set the elephants free
Horton once proudly said
And him I shall paraphrase
A special truth that lead
That set my soul ablaze
"We'll just have to save you
Because after all
Person's a person, no matter how small."
Indeed, elephants are persons
Ones we need to save
Before the situation worsens
We all must be brave
Stop attending circus shows
Making zoos empty and deserted
Boldly fight and oppose
This abuse so perverted
Donate to organizations
Who love elephants too
Across the seas and nations
Big hearted through and through
I love elephants with all my heart
Since my childhood, right from the start
A world without them is not worth living
So, come on now, let's start giving
Break all the chains
Unite as a herd
Ease their pains
With each loving word
Together united
The jungle's where they'll be
I'm proudly delighted
To say "Set the elephants free"
And maybe some day, they will be
Footnotes
Elephant lovers everywhere, unite!!!!! Here's a poem dedicated to saving our long nosed friends!