Relentless Slaughter Poem by Raymond Farrell

Mindless jaws
Steel beasts
Attack
Tearing trees
Up by the roots
Peeling bark
Lobbing off dangling limbs
Chopping the whole
Into consumable
Bits and pieces.

Gigantic mechanized pinchers
Devastate hectares
Of prime bush
Two hundred years
Of majestic splendor
Razed in a day
Birds crushed in their nests
Coons, squirrels, deer, porcupines
The whole ecology
Is timber shocked
Their world having
Fallen down
Around them.

The bare earth lies weeping
Bleeding, raped and pillaged
In this graveyard
Of tangled broken boughs
Displaced wildlife
Stump tombstones
And unruly undergrowth.

Have mercy
On dumb innocent
Animals
They cannot speak for themselves