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All that one has learned in the past is useless

when the present is so uncertain;

and that of my entire species is not promising.

In my role of matriarch,

and thanks to my prodigious memory,

I have done my best to lead my herd

to geographies of water and food,

helping them avoid terrible beasts.

But the worst among them knows how to camouflage

and attacks from a distance, from a very long distance,

to put a bullet in our head.

We can do nothing.

In the face of treachery, the enormous force

that allows us to uproot trees is ineffective,

as well as closing ranks to protect ourselves as a group.

And all because of these ivory tusks,

which in theory are for our defense

but now I curse, for they have been our ruin.

If you want them so much to decorate your frivolous showcases

or make chess games,

I give them to you, but please don’t kill unnecessarily all of us.

The memory of the world, of the most antique,

that of mammoths and mastodons,

also lives on in me.