ODE TO PONGO PYGMAEUS

Graceful ladies – red hair flowing

Dominant males – cheek pads growing

Soft brown eyes and liquid movements

So close to our genetic blue prints

Babies clamped on until they’re seven

Red hairs mingling as though they’re woven

‘Give me a child until he is seven’

(You’re so clever – straight from heaven?)

‘And I will give you the man’

(Is this where the saying began?)

You epitomize the way we should become

In harmony with nature, every one

No carbon footprints can be detected

A regenerating eco system perfected

But we – with our extra three per cent

Have followed life’s circle and no doubt bent

Evolutionary rules and the world’s master plan

To fulfil our greed – we are consumer man!

With three per cent more on the balance sheet

We can shift the profits – our targets meet

Just three per cent difference between you and me

So rotten we are – and so pure are thee

Just one small island on this God given planet

Three great nations have the power to ruin it

Three great nations hold the key

To turn back the tide of this misery

But between these three, there can be no doubt

They abuse their powers, the laws they flout

All for lumber and palm oil exports

They will willingly kill the closest sorts

Known to us - Homo sapiens

And turn blind eyes to your sufferings

To add insult to injury – (rather death in your case)

They will kill you parents and still give chase

And steal your babies to lock them up tight

In tiny caged boxes to contain their fright

And parade them around for years and years

Oblivious consciences to their nightmare fears

How can your cousins be so cruel?

Perhaps the way forward is to change the rule?

Now I see it very clear – this is our test

It shall be our quest

Don’t think of the problem as too large for you

Think of solutions two by two

Two plus two plus two compounded

Will soon see the issue fully confounded

If a human being was treated the very same way

The guilty would be jailed for a life and a day

Perhaps ‘human rights’ could prove a court case

With genes this close we are ethnically cleansing a race

So ethically important is your future – I dare

To hope there is someone qualified out there

Who could pick up the mantle - act quickly and fast

Put a stop to this atrocity before the final dice is cast……….