Bunged up!

You branded me as Pachyderms!

But, your skin is thicker than me,

thus, my appeal never pats you!

You alter me to an exhibit ....

.... 'Rhino show' and

get earning from my show!

You **** me for my horn

to energies you and heal your seen!

But ‘Why don’t use your hair and nails?’

I am older than you

Carrying the heritage of

Fifty million years!

We have the imprint of thirty million years in us!

Yours is only four million years!

You are quite junior to me in experience of survival!

“How, you claim you are supreme?”

This is my grass land

I nurture it with my compassion and essence,

My toil not only gives us food,

But we,..........

........Protect the sources of food for you too.....

.........you will get the fruits in future!........

But,

You never listen to me....

.....care me........

.....Our hue and cry.....

...Unable to penetrate....

.....your rigid casing of so called kindness and charity......

Please stop your .........

.......cruelty and defacement.....

Other wise

Planet’s history will never forgive you!

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Notes: Rhinoceros (comes from the Greek ‘rhino’ - "nose" and ‘ceros’- "horn"); is the one of the most threatening and endangered wildlife in the world. It is categories as Pachyderms (comes from Greek, ‘pachys’ -thick and ‘derma’-skin). Rhino caries the imprint of existence in this planet about 50 million years old out of which present species caries imprint of 30 million years; whereas human imprint is only 4 million years. Our vandalism on it is blunders to our future!
Rhino’s horn is not attached to its skull. It is actually a compacted mass of hairs that continues to grow throughout the animal’s lifetime, just like our own hair and nails. There are a growing number of killings of Rhino only for its horn, to fulfil our faulty belief. But the Rhino habitat grassland is the source of diversity of grasses, which may provide us new variety of rice and wheat in future to face the challenges of climate change. But our age old superstition invigorated with the availability of modern tools (an outcome of rational thinking and innovation). It is a tragedy of our civilization. There is a need for global approach and initiatives to protect this beautiful life and remove superstition. Let us try for it!
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