,You're alone now
.solitary yet magnificent, just as you always were
We recall your era with pride, those of us who lived in your time
We speak of you to our grandchildren, how we could see you,
with your modesty and dignity, as you roamed the zoo
how we used to watch you in cartoons and during the times when you were chased through the jungle and fields
Now you are lonelier than the solitary horn
more than the metaphor of the name, more than the thought of our hands on your skin
once imagined to be made of iron
We'll mourn your extinction
knowing full well
how much pain we've caused you
We were wrong in our perception of you, our fear unwarranted
How innocent, peaceful, and lonely you were and now we will know
as we watch the brutal humans
.on the same television