Little Sammy was a baby seal
And early in his life he got to feel
A baseball bat upon his head
Which left him all ****** and dead
Then they skinned him on the ice,
And I know this poem is not nice,
But this is the reality for a baby seal
As spoiled rich people like the feel
Of his baby soft fur which they wear
Because selfish spoiled people just don't care
They do not care as they buy ivory
They do not care for her orphaned baby
They do not care as they buy rhinocerous horn
They do not care for her calf unborn
They do not care as they buy tiger skins
They do not care that she just had twins
They do not care as they buy gorilla parts
They seem devoid of those things called hearts,
They do not care as a snow leopard dies
To satisfy the craving of their greedy eyes,
They do not care as long as they get
Whatever they have not got as yet,
They do not care that in very short time
Their funding of this heinous crime
Will lead to the total extinction of
Most of the animals named above,
And these are the most endangered few
There are so many more that this ignorant crew
Are determined to make it a certainty
That they disappear for eternity.

Tom Higgins 25/05/2014