The Last Elephant
Do you not know what it is you are doing,
Driven only by poverty and the need to survive?
Or do you know but not care,
Driven only by greed and the lure of easy money?
And when you have killed all but the last elephant
In a meaningless symbolic gesture will you let it walk away?
Or will you take its life as well,
Adding yet another link to the chain of death
Leading but to your own destruction?
© 1995 Randy Bone