Voices of the Wild

I am polar bear
crawling across a melting landscape,
just skin and bone when I
finally expire

I am Tahlequah, mother orca,
carrying my dead calf on my nose
for seventeen days,
unable to let her go

I am small terrified monkey
waiting in too-small cage
to be placed on the barbecue
in Wuhan

I am wolf
shot at from helicopters
as I run,
no safe place to hide

I am koala and kangaroo
fleeing the wildfires.
I am wild horses
with burning hooves
fleeing across a smoking landscape

I am indigenous matriarch
weeping for the destruction of
my homeland and
the genocide of my people

I am old growth forest
the last of my kind,
the lungs of the planet,
being chopped down
as swiftly as
temperatures soar

I am the voice of the wild,
of Mother Earth,
speaking in all of her voices
a message we humans
refuse or just cant bear
to hear.


for Grace's prompt at dVerse: I Am.......I chose to speak for those who have no voice. I will share this at earthweal's open link as well.