Panthera Onca The Jaguar (A Poem)

Panthera Onca with eyes so golden,

You were worshiped as the sun god,

Now you are hunted numbering fewer than 10,000,

You roam the jungle your last home,

Like so many others that have come before,

Has your time on this plain come to an end?

Only humanity and time will tell,

Panthera Onca fur of molten gold or of the darkest black,

Your time grows short and that’s a fact,

Mysterious and Ancient the key to the future can be seen in your eyes,

Tell me the secrets of the time before time when the world was young,

God and Goddess in your own right,

Worshiped not out of fear or fright,

Now you fade into the darkness leaving us without light,

To forever stumble through the night.

My Daughter-in-law gave me permission to use her poem here on Felines and You. Lots of species of Big Cats are being killed each year due to poaching of their fur and other things. The Jaguar sits close to my Daughter-in-law's heart so she wrote this poem about the coming extinction of the Jaguar if we do not save them now! My next article will be on Jaguar Rescues so stay tuned!