Birth – meant for convenience and enslavement
Life – valueless, pitiable
Death – merely hours away
Sunlight – a strange word in a foreign language
Torture – a way of life
Bone – what you hear scrape against the floor
Blade – to puncture and prod
Smiles – to mock and degrade
Festival – an order to purge
Pleasure – permission for pain
Tradition – a dance of slaughter
Normality – the reign of the tyrant
Kindness – a rare commodity
Love – a trait of questioning minds
Peace – the mark of a radical
Unity – the goal of the fools
Release – the bars no longer confining
Oxygen – a gift of the Gods
Freedom – a strange new reality
Healing – wounds vanish without trace
Understanding – the monsters become the angels
Compassion – feather-light touch from iron hands
Sanctuary – the home of all generations
Starlight – defying the armies of death
Poetry Copyright © 2018 – 2023 by Ena Whiteraven All Rights Reserved.
Inspired by the Animal Rights Movement and various animal sanctuaries and volunteers
Photo: Farm Sanctuary (found on web)
Second image/featured image: photographer unknown
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