It is only too easy for us
To say
How horrible
How heartless
How inhuman
But the responsibility for
The elephant’s death
Can be laid
Squarely at our door
Farmers get no help at all
To keep marauding animals
From their fields
They are left to their own devices
(Some of them deadly)
To save
Their food
Our food
(If they eat a boar or two
Into the bargain
Well, reciprocally
The boars have eaten their food, too)
The elephant’s death
Was an accident
No matter what
Communal colour is sought to be painted
No matter what
High moral ground is sought to be taken
But the circumstances that led to the accident
The habitat loss
The man-animal conflict
The plight of subsistence agriculture
The environmental depredation
Are not accidental at all
They are all orchestrated by
The Urban-Industrial-Capitalist conglomerate
Which has colonised the world
And is now busy
Through their lap-dog media
Colonising our minds
The hand that did the deed
May be guilty in law
But we who condone
The circumstances that lead to this
We who allow this colonisation
Are by far
Far guiltier