Forgetting the dance 

I am a fish in the poisoned river

I am an insect droning the street light

I am the bird knocked out by the window strike

I am a disoriented whale stranded

I am a turtle tangled lifeless in abandoned net

I am a giraffe skinned by trophy hunters

I am the rhino calf nudging my hacked mother

I am a shark without fin sinking into the depth of ocean

I am a tiger farmed for my body parts

I am a monkey tied up for research

I am a dog with ears and tail cropped

I am a chicken dying in my own weight

I am cow impregnated for milk

I am a pig farmed for meat

I am a snake deity defanged   

I am a cheetah cub groomed as a pet  

I am a caged parrot

I am an electrocuted elephant

I am the bull in the arena

I am an orangutan clinging to the last tree

I am an owl startled by celebration

I am the heron feeding on plastic

I am caterpillar killed by pesticide

I am a plant drooping in soot

I am butterfly searching for shade

I am a tree that has come in the way of development

I am a bee who has forgotten the dance