The Loss Of Great European Forests Poem by Terence George Craddock

biodiversity the great forests
in Europe had already been
destroyed vast life destroyed

animal species not decimated
but genocide extinction destroyed
chains links in beautiful ecosystem

not just broken but extinction gone
habitat loss entire unique species
extinct extinct totally irretrievably

gone from previous habitat regions
never to be replaced reintroduced
extinction gone genocide destroyed

this was the real wasteland
far more deadly permanent
than a great trench line cut

across Europe in World War 1