Haikus

Why do people poach?​

Don’t they know that animals​

Are living creatures?

If animals spoke,​

What would they say to humans?​

“Have mercy on us!”

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What do humans get​

From hunting mercilessly?​

They are so cruel.

Poaching is pointless,​

What do you get when you hunt?​

No wealth, joy, just guilt.

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Every creature,​

Big or small, any color​

Deserves not to die!

How come murdering ​

Is different from poaching?​

In both, you take lives!

Think this while poaching-​

What if you were the hunted?​

Be kind to creatures.

Animals are so​

Beautiful and majestic.​

Why would you kill them?

A life is lost​

When an animal is killed.​

Protect animals!

Animals have hearts,​

They are a lot like humans.​

They also feel pain.

Imagine there are​

No forests or animals​

That means no humans.

Please save animals,​

You will feel joy. But if you​

Kill them, you get guilt.

Don’t harm animals​

For if there were no creatures,​

Humans would not live.

Value animals,​

However strange they may be.​

They, too, are alive.

Why do humans think​

The animals they exploit​

Are inferior?

One dead creature is​

A mind, a heart, and a soul​

Never coming back.

Know this when you poach-​

There is something called karma.​

What you do comes back.

Have pity, people!​

You watch as countless creatures​

Breathe for the last time.

Cute cubs forced to​

Entertain you at their cost.​

Why doesn’t this stop!?

Giant elephants​

Doing unnatural tricks.​

This is so absurd!

Is entertainment​

More important than a life​

And the human race?

Give love, not sorrow.​

See animals in their homes,​

Not in circuses!

If guns give sorrow,​

Why not use cameras or​

Donate and save lives!

What if you had were​

Locked in a cage and laughed at?​

Don’t cage animals!

What if hundreds of​

Animals were saved by you?​

That is possible!

An animal dead​

For a man’s entertainment.​

This is exploiting.

When you pray to god,​

Does he tell you to take lives?​

Then why do you poach?

The bible says that​

We should treat creatures with care.​

Why don’t we listen?

The Gita states that​

Never harm any creature.​

Follow religion!

Even the Quran​

Does not encourage killing.​

But still, people hunt.

God hates cruelty,​

Buddhism encourages​

Giving joy, not pain.

All religions are​

Against poaching and​

Killing animals.

Please love animals-​

It’s good for the entire​

Human race and world.

So many creatures​

So beautiful, being poached.​

I wish they didn’t die.

So many lives being​

Destroyed by our selfishness.​

Humans are evil.

Trees are so precious​

When they are cut they never​

Try to take revenge.

In all the world’s zoos​

Is a tortured animal​

And a captured soul.

Every creature​

Is important and part of ​

The ecosystem. 

The food chain is like​

A house of cards- take one out,​

And the whole thing breaks.

Some people ask why-​

“Why do we poach?” They are​

Pillars of nature. 

Protect all creatures!​

No matter their shape or size.​

Why? They protect you.