---
title: vaquita lament
description: We have failed to save the Vaquita's, less than 10 left in the wild. Our desire for popcorn shrimp and unbruised apples outweighed the story of a species.
image: https://broomwatr.com/hubfs/vaquita.png
---

[Skip to content](https://broomwatr.com/blog/vaquita-lament#main-content)

# vaquita lament

[Broomwatr](https://broomwatr.com/blog/author/broomwatr)

 December 23 2024

[Poetry](https://broomwatr.com/blog/tag/poetry), [Nature](https://broomwatr.com/blog/tag/nature), [Loss](https://broomwatr.com/blog/tag/loss)

*We can't always just lean on hope or false positivity narratives. We have to embrace the losses around us and witness them, it hurts more but maybe it will help us change. I would love to say there is hope for the  [Vaquita's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquita), but my heart says no, too much and too far gone. Grieve them with me and witness the loss of a sweet, simple species that survived ice ages, the rise and fall of oceans, predators unknown and now extinct, countless generations of a thinking, feeling species that hit the wall of humanity.  
~broomwatr*

[*Phocoena sinus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquita) is just a name  
As the end draws nigh  
A lingering shame  
For the last of the vaquita   
Calls my name  
"[Cetecea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacea)!" from whence she came  
A mother cries out   
A species dies out  
a common refrain  
But it has a name

Vaquita   
Vaquita  
Vaquita, our shame

Eons to speciate  
Decades to decimate  
Seconds to dive into a  
Failure to thrive  
Not natural selection  
Not evolution, unmastered  
Losses by toxins and  
[popcorn shrimp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquita#Fisheries_bycatch) masses  
No nets built for her  
Can focus this blur  
No words can recur  
the cry of a mother  
of a species  
that can't  
endure  
us

"Cetecea!" from whence she came  
A mother cries out   
A species dies out  
A common refrain  
But it has a name

Vaquita   
Vaquita  
Vaquita, our shame

 

 

```json
{
  "@context" : "https://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "Broomwatr",
    "url" : "https://broomwatr.com/blog/author/broomwatr"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2024-12-23T16:37:55.595Z",
  "datePublished" : "2024-12-23T16:37:55.000Z",
  "headline" : "vaquita lament",
  "image" : [ "https://broomwatr.com/hubfs/vaquita.png" ],
  "mainEntityOfPage" : {
    "@id" : "https://broomwatr.com/blog/vaquita-lament",
    "@type" : "WebPage"
  },
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject"
    },
    "name" : "Brian Birch"
  }
}
```