Twenty-first Century Tiger

Tiger, tiger burning out,

total population drought.

What immoral hand and eye

framed you to be lost in time?

In what desperate quest for food

did a huntsman fell your woods,

what wild demon dare dethrone

the largest feline ever known?

What beast came to slash and burn

the forests blazing with your fur,

What twisted devil saw your eyes

and thought palm oil a better prize?

If only evil could be blamed

for the tiger being tamed,

instead of the grim reality

you lost your habitat to groceries.

Will your creator hold us accountable

for your absence in the genetic pool,

or can your fearful symmetry

return with restored forestry?

Tiger, tiger fading fast,

on the most endangered list.

That immoral hand and eye

framing you to be lost in time

is mine,

but I promise I will try to buy

products that don’t cost you your life,

so tiger, tiger can burn bright

in the forest of the night.