【Bush Kills】
By Tian Yu Zhi
The afternoon sun shines on the full mane of
A male lion, watching a lioness and a baby lion
Share a fresh meal of a zebra carcass,
killing for food in the bush, as old as the land
A baby white rhino, pauses on the road
Stares at the Jeep, “What is that, friends or foe? “
“Move on…,” a gentle horn nudge from mother rhino
“…Some of them would kill us for our nails…”
Some humans kill rhinos for horns, to almost extinction
In hope of living longer, not knowing
The poison injected to rhinos' horns
Would send them to heaven, sooner
A fair game, after all