South China Tiger

Piercing yellowish eyes of the beast

Stalking with its striped fur for a feast

A true beauty of nature, dangerous and agile

Feel free to stare for a while

Soon this tiger will go missing

The roars and orange tail swishing

Soon will be lost to poaching

Illegally killing tigers for flaunting

Do you think you can ignore it anymore?

Acting like restoration is nothing but a chore

South of China, where it lived

How could it ever forgive?

Beautiful stripes, reduced to rugs

Tiger teeth, removed with a tug

Sold off to the wealthy without a thought

Living in the wild, just to be caught

If this goes on, jungles will be eerily silent

No orange fur, that’s so elegantly vibrant

One day all tigers will go extinct

Just because we did not care to think.