Requiem to Manta, the Two-Headed Stingray

 Requiem to Manta, the Two-Headed Stingray 

Dr Abe V Rotor

 Living with Nature - School on Blog

 Manta Ray (Manta birostis) being butchered on a beach in

San Luis, Batangas circa 1999. Photos by the author.

Goodbye Manta, I wish to say with respect,

      but I will not;

I would only deceive the world and myself,

      if you depart.

Goodbye Manta, I wish to say to others too,

      but I will not;

for you do not deserve this dreadful fate -

      a bloody bath.

Goodbye Manta, I wish the world to go on,

      but I will not;

the chain of all creatures on earth must stay,

      and we are a part. ~

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