The savage acts of the evolved humans

A poem on Human-Wildlife conflicts

Humans are the real trespassers! Why the conflict when we can co-exist?

The wild elephant had suffered a painful death as a result of consuming a fruit laced with explosives (https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/policy-lessons-from-the-elephant-death-in-kerala-6455783/)

She came to just eat a fruit
Something which grew in her own abode
But the human intruders, callous and brute
Laced it with an explosive that tore her throat

Just a fruit she was to eat with joy
In her forest, once kind and sans any such ploy
Now infested with people, so many, in her habitat
Destroying her playing corridors which were once intact

Injured, she starved to death
Kept standing in water as tears she shed
Unable to eat what was on her land
Agonized; she sulked and into death sank

When did humans turn into demons?
Unable to see beyond profits,
and to commit such treason
If this is being evolved and civilized
Not sure what being savage would look like!

We intrude their homes; devoid them of their resource
On the name of development, forget we are humans at the core
Blinded, we torture the nature and its folks
Snatching the balance from its strokes

Our callousness will make these animals leave their play
Leaving the eco-system hanging in dismay
Why devoid our kids of nature’s lovely flair?
When the human-wildlife conflict can turn into a respectful affair

Our brain can reflect and think with its evolved glaze
There are a multitude of sustainable win-win ways
Remember, we don’t own the nature’s master plan
We are just a species who needs to act more humane

Why the wildlife be slaughtered by humans; why such persecution?
When into her habitat it was mankind who made an intrusion
Why the disinclination to still adopt an alternative solution?
When it’s imperative that sustainable goals drive our decisions!

-GK