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Timid and shy

Powerful and fast

Hiding in the tallest grass


Tiny ears, amber eyes

In the sun the cheetah lies


When the cheetah

Senses danger

He prepares to fight the stranger


When the cheetah eats his prey

The lions and the leopards

Often take it away


Then the cheetah has no food,

Because the lions and the leopards

Were so rude


So please understand the cheetah's plight,

For if you shoot him it won't be right


So don't let the cheetah become extinct,

It's the most beautiful animal on earth,

I think

(The Cheetah by Julie Ann de Villiers, Age 14 (1994)