The World For Yourself Poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay

Will you help?
Or you need the world only for yourself.
Then you needn't heed the warning bells,
Sparrows are vanishing, so are squirrels
Water hens and coucals are almost gone
But you don't need them you wannabe alone.
It's such a small thing disappearance of a bird
Tiger is vanishing, not far is leopard
It doesn't matter let your tribe grow
Let them perish the thylacine and dodo.
You can live alone so what for the howl
You need no drongo no nightjar no owl
Rhinos are butchered, gorillas only a few
Not the wild asses must survive is you.
You must alone rule with tooth and claw
Let them all go the eagles and macaw
The otter, the cheetah and the polar bear
You needn't think till they're there.
Then when they go it'll be too late
To know on their survival depends your fate
Even the smallest one lends you their help
But you needed the world only for yourself.