After the Harvest: We'll all be gone!

Photo by Jim McIntosh.

Always before us

our ancestors wandered

roaming so freely

our wilderness home.

For millions of years

we could all walk together,

but man has destroyed them,

now all of that's gone.

Once we could wander

beyond highest mountain,

and across green savannah

we could all roam. 

There was a time

when we all walked together,

until man's exploitation has

destroyed our green home.

There are these rivers

that flow wide between us.

There are these oceans

of knowledge unknown.

If we could converse,

would you believe us?

How you've poisoned this Earth

that was once our green home.

And always before us

we rhino have wandered,

roaming so freely

in Nature's kingdom.

But now in this short time

as they gather vile treasures,

after the harvest

we'll all be gone.

Now we must flee

to hide beyond mountains.

And the green savannah,

no longer our home.

There was a time

we would all walk together

until we saw your reflection 

and could see what you've done.

Now we must flee

to hide beyond mountain.

Now we must flee

the poacher's chainsaw.

And now we must suffer

the cruellest of slaughter,

for the Chinese Medicine

they harvest our horn.

And after the harvest...

and after the harvest...

and after the harvest...

we'll all be gone.

Thanks to Ray Wylie Hubbard for the inspiration!

Can't find his "After the Harvest" on YouTube but this is a favourite also. 

After the Harvest: We'll all be gone!

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