Art ( so called)

The artists using paints
and pigments
captures and displays
mindful interpretations
and such created work
portrays
quizzically and otherwise
and a few descend and fall
into the weird and ugly
into the dark and sinister
frightening us all
into the vile and wicked
thoughtless and the crude
with adverse consequences
for the innocent
subdued
by death or by
paralysis by cruelty
and pain
how this can ever be called art
I mean its so insane
life so very precious
should not be taken away
and sacrificed for art
no animal should pay
for the artist
to create such work
I encourage them to feel
to search into their psyche
to fathom out how real
it is to submit to someone
for the sake of art
the design of that true
creature
where the miracle did start
this living breathing specimen
cannot be bettered by
someone with a paint brush
and a weird sense of the I

who am I to ever think
that what I do create
is up there with the angels
something that’s so great
that I have rights to
slaughter 9000 butterflies
or cripple some poor
canine soul
who didn’t realise
why I had exacted this
penalty on him
it was just all down to art
art just on a whim
the greatest artists ever
were creators and they showed
with their eyes and hearts and hands
their work used light
and they glowed
they strode out into somewhere
and they captured all they saw
they may have put their mark on it
but now few will ignore

their talent and their vision
and their balanced point of view
their technique and their prowess
and what it does for you
it creates a fresh experience
it encapsulates your thoughts
it encourages you to think beyond
to see the spots and warts

without them actually being there
its in the minds of those
who wish to see them or manifest them
just like a piece of prose
but to see real slaughtered butterflies
arranged in various ways
this is not what I call art
its more a vile malaise
to actually kill 9000 butterflies
whose precious lives were lost
were cut short for art
who has this right
in whose maelstrom were they tossed

And what of those who displayed them
who reviewed them what of those
everyone involved in them
I am in the throes
of feeling they have equal
responsibility
and should decry the reasons why
they allow iniquity
to flourish alongside what is
genuine and good
for the sake of the fine art
something really should
have registered in all those minds
that cruelty and pain
and savagery and wickedness
can never be for gain
can never hide under the cloak
of art when what we see
is sacrifice and evil
and so much cruelty