THE DINOSAUR MUSEUM

This poem addresses the threat that that poaching poses to our wild life

THE DINOSAUR MUSEUM …. S. K. KYENZE

The mighty Jumbo,

Adorned in regal splendor

Treads the African savannah

Draped in sheer glorious majesty

And the old matriarch trumpets

In the expansive Amboseli

African Savannah country.

Tsavo national park

The abode of the man-eaters, time past

That indelibly etched their place in history

With indelible marks of human blood

Men who encroached on their territory

Now decimated into a pale shadow

Of its glorious past.

Hear ye: the sorrowful grunting of the Rhino

Stubby feet flailing wildly

The callous poacher saws away at the erect horn,

Before the rhino is fully dead

Thinking of the crisp notes ahead

The buyer, thinking of the potent aphrodisiac

Embellished in the erect horn

Lands, rivers, lakes and oceans,

The abode of all fauna

Man has destroyed with wild abandon

The once earthly paradise

Broken, shattered, shattered into desolate pieces

Only the silent scream of agony

Splits the still dawn air.

For generations to come,

Let’s tame this insanity

Let’s save the white rhino,

Let’s rescue the mighty elephant

Let’s tame the downward spiral

Into the dinosaur museum.

Kyenze 11/05/2015