tiger, tiger...
A couple of verses from William Blake's "The Tiger"
"Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?"
Sheer poetry, sheer beauty. A beautiful poem inspired by the selfsame creature, which is now critically endangered. What have we done, that this magnificent beast is now fighting a losing battle with an unseen foe!
Ever an object of awe, the tiger has been the victim of an insatiable greed for its skin, its claws, its bones and various organs. The worst offenders? Big game hunters, rich assholes who seek trophies to hang on their wall, chinese bastards and assholes who believe that the bones and organs have medicinal values (hence are valued even more than gold on a weight basis), and last but not the least, assholes who poach the creatures.
A few years ago a tiger was killed and skinned in a zoo in Hyderabad, India. That incident made my blood boil! If I had a gun in my hand and the bastards, who perpetrated the heinous act, in my sights, there would be a reckoning the likes they would not have imagined in their worst nightmares. And I am not talking a swift death here, but lots of suffering. What happened to the zoo employees who colluded with the poachers? They were suspended! Can you believe it!
The tiger is only one of a multitude of species now being wiped out because man's greed and insatiable appetite for increasing civilization's boundaries. If an apex predator like the tiger has met with this fate, it's going to be a much tougher fight for the rest of God's creatures.
"Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?"
Sheer poetry, sheer beauty. A beautiful poem inspired by the selfsame creature, which is now critically endangered. What have we done, that this magnificent beast is now fighting a losing battle with an unseen foe!
Ever an object of awe, the tiger has been the victim of an insatiable greed for its skin, its claws, its bones and various organs. The worst offenders? Big game hunters, rich assholes who seek trophies to hang on their wall, chinese bastards and assholes who believe that the bones and organs have medicinal values (hence are valued even more than gold on a weight basis), and last but not the least, assholes who poach the creatures.
A few years ago a tiger was killed and skinned in a zoo in Hyderabad, India. That incident made my blood boil! If I had a gun in my hand and the bastards, who perpetrated the heinous act, in my sights, there would be a reckoning the likes they would not have imagined in their worst nightmares. And I am not talking a swift death here, but lots of suffering. What happened to the zoo employees who colluded with the poachers? They were suspended! Can you believe it!
The tiger is only one of a multitude of species now being wiped out because man's greed and insatiable appetite for increasing civilization's boundaries. If an apex predator like the tiger has met with this fate, it's going to be a much tougher fight for the rest of God's creatures.
posted by the grim sleeper at 7:29 PM
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