You weren’t and then you were

A time ago so far away

You were few and grew to many

You weren’t and then you were

 

You trusted in your innocence

A life you should now still live

You will instead no longer

You trusted while we never did

 

“We needn’t opportunity

We burn with fires of brilliant hell

We slice the earth with knives’ night ice

We needn’t opportunity

Destruction is our will”

 

And so they took and never gave

Their chance repentance, sins never paid

And all the days we slaved away

And so they took and never gave

 

Your beauty grace and step so light

Did touch this earth as stars burn bright

Your presence brought here balance true

Your beauty in the night

 

“And so we ventured for a while

Jungle vines,  fierce veins uncivilized

Through a heart of amazon wild

Through this we ventured, unseen vile

Destruction is our will”

 

We fought to save you from the rest

Our tired efforts time well spent

We tried, foe reveling not best us yet

We fought to save you through to present

 

But there we see your spot plush fur

In steel jaws now painted red

Or snared in rope your body lay

And there we see you, never stir

 

“All of this to make a profit

As selling coats makes highest riches

We slash and burn, trade bones and teeth

A shot rings out while livestock sleep

Destruction is our will”

 

And soon the world will never know

Your travels through the moonlight glow

And will we ever find a cure

The mystery of jaguars

 

You were and then you weren’t

A time like now and never again

You were many, many a time

You were and then you weren’t