animal rights
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When I was a teen I had a rat. A white dumbo rat, with red eyes, who was blind. Her name was Fresno, like the California nightcrawlers she bore resemblance to.
Do you see him cowering there in the corner?
His owner has beaten him, he’s falling apart.
Broken bones, it’s a cycle that never ends.
He whimpers. Will bad fortune ever bend?
Do you see her all alone?
Picking fruit and swimming in the trees
Spending time with family
Until the day of depravity
Homeland destroyed and community slaughtered
Snatched and sent overseas
To life science facilities
"what is the thing your are most afraid of?"
i ask
the pigs look at me and a river falls from their eyes
"life" they answered
before my next question asking them "why?"
I.
Dear Tesfaye,
I wish you didn’t have to grow up like this.
I wish there was more I could do to help.
You are only four,
still too young to fully understand.
Poverty
Dear Vegetarians,
I am one of you.
A word that defines 4% of our youth
And only 3% of adults.
A definition that encompasses so much more
Please don’t make fun of me
When I say I’m a vegan
Because you say you love Fluffy
we learn to hate
to slice and maime
to choose our possessions
and keep souls bound and chained
every mortal wants to be immortal
every one wants to be free
what is keeping us so imprisoned
Master, I wonder
why do you beat me so.
What have I done to deserve this
pain.
Is it because my name is Pitbull
A jungle environment
With fists clenched tight.
Clinging onto fig branches
Like a baby koala.
Fingers sharp and tightened,
Like ET,Calling phone to home.
Eye sockets widened,
I do not eat my friends
You eat my friends
I can see their ends
Sometimes... people stab my friends
they feed my friends to their friends
I can see their ends
I have only seen my father cry twice
But the first time I saw him spill crocodile tears
Into the Nile river of grief was four years ago.
I've tried so hard to silence the silenceI've waited so long and haven't seem much but little ripples in the darknessI'm not satisfiedI'm not OK with what I've been taught to think is real.
Velvet triangles, shiny black buttons
and soft pink hands
that grip the underside of my window.
He is peaceful, finally fully unafraid
while sleeping while only I watch
his steady daytime slumber.
Do a flip for me!
Do a trick, it'll be the only way you'll get your food.
Smile Sweetie, Pumpkin, Jimmy, Armie!
I hope you enjoy the room, it'll be your home forever.
Want to run? Swim?
How can you slaughter them?
The poor, hopeless babies
The weary, weak elders
All the souls in between
How can you sleep at night,
Knowing that you are causing this suffering?
There is change great and small,
At times it feels as though it doesn't matter at all.
So many things that go on
That could fill a hundred songs,
Never get to see the day of light
If i Had The Power to Change.
i want the,
the power to change lives around me
the power to change the cities that surround me
the power to change the wind in my sails
They will break your heart
Innocent lives gone forever
Simply euthanized
Taken without their consent
Animals, we are their voice
On earth they lived since long ago
then human race began to grow
these children of nature are dissapearing
but here we are not even caring
slowly the world is also dying
The bitter cold tickles my delicately frosted leaves,
chilling me to the very core of my being.
I am a frog
With no dog
Because that dog
Ran off my log
Even though I chased my dog
Off my log
In the fog
Now I see a hog
About to jog
To my log
To eat a frog
Here's a story about a cup
lost and lonely was the cup
we found it sitting all alone
Then someone said please pick it up
And so they did and washed that cup
They washed the cup and let it dry
Duct tape
Punch
Kick
Throw
Slap
Cut
Bruise
Scratch
Scrape
Starve
Hurt
Thirst
Weight
Ripped away from mothers
Means nothing
As long as we can benefit
No room to breathe
Means nothing
As long as we can benefit
Never seeing the outdoors
Means nothing
As long as we can benefit
I was born to this world as men's best friend,
Not to be abused or to make this the end.
We jump and play, it was all in vain
I was named with happiness,
Now my name is worthless.
I want to speak and ask why
I am the meadow,
the tranquil meadow.
I am the trees,
the trees that gently swayed.
I am the birds,
the birds that sweetly chirped.
I am the flowers,
the flowers that bobbed and danced.
Carbord, sharpie marker,
to me is making a way
asking for help
asking to be loved
nothing wrong with that
coping with it stress
trying to make it better
What's the problem?
They are just like us,
From characteristics,
To emotions.
They lift our spirits,
On our darkest days.
They always want to
Be with us
Even if we ignore them.
They complete
Our life.
Vegan, a what? Cult? A kinda Fruit? Is that in the Middle East? (heard it all)
No meat, no animal milk or eggs!?!
A freak, a hippy, an anarchist,
A radical extremist, must be sickly,
They're quiet and calm, blending into the waves of the ocean shore.
Shells hard and tough like stone.
Not intimidating or threatening, just there.
There living and roaming.
There to make the sand its friend and
Animals have feelings too,
This is why we should not beat them with a shoe.
Animals should be treated like family,
Just sit back and see.
