Endangered Species Day
(today)

I don’t know them all
and yet I know
the issues

maybe we know

the hunting of unique animals
the destruction of
the homes
those that add usefulness with beauty
to the world we know
or
should know

and there are insects
even
burrowing the soil to make
the ground worth working as if
they had
the mission
to do so

trophies
as only the living
prove

healthy places
in which to survive as well as do better
than
survival

leave them alone unless
and until we make the laws of
us to cooperate with
those
of Earth

if the fauna
should be wild
let it
and them be wild until
we learn
mostly what they know
to be let be

let

as in leave except
for photographs

them be

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photo by Alan J. Hendry on Unsplash