NaPoWriMo 2013 Day 27 ~ Black Suits and Bold Lies

Mantella: This poisonous frog from Madagascar, Mantella baroni, also acquires its toxins through its diet. One of the primary contributors is an ant that is endemic to Madagascar, Anochetus grandidieri. Photo: Valerie C. Clark.

I am dressed to kill

so take a hint to look

and not touch.

Take me out for a bite

and that may be

your last lunch.

You have come uninvited

with your matchstick flames

reducing my rainforest backyard

to burnt logs and plowed fields.

Madagascar, you see with

near sighted eyes the grain

to feed the immediate

while leaving the future to starve.

All my favorite eateries are disappearing

to the bloated assumptions a lost frog

is nothing to the salvation of man.

After all you tout, "It was we who

were given dominion."

I wear my poisoned haute couture

for an explicit reason to warn of intent.

It Seems humans prefer to wear their

daily garb of black suits and bold lies.

©Susie Clevenger 2013

You can read more about the man made and natural threats to the Mantella here.

Hannah at Real Toads informed us that today is Save The Frogs Day and challenged us to give a voice to a frog. Each living thing on our planet is precious and we sadly we are losing too much life by our neglect. Transforming Frog Day!