Eyes wide open but failing to see the truth

Using the eyes
We were given to see
And feel pain
And sharing it
all constantly

Being mindful about life
Of Knowing the strain
Bearing down on those of us
Who truthfully gain
We do make a difference
And devastatingly
Will though our backs ache
We all can free

We try our best by
opening minds
Closed to the truth
Just like opening blinds
it bears down on the nerves
of many who peer
over the parapet
Who feel the fear
And the brokenhearted
Whose characters be
Set fine and sure
In the peoples army.

Take the pachyderm tribes
Large animals we
See how Massively strong
they really can be
But with human squalor
We rapidly break
and they are overpowered
All losing a stake

And begin serving idiocy
and their grime
Of slaving in the dust
Of being chained and beaten
Of knowing the disgust
Of mahouts and of rich men
Who have eyes who tend to see
The whole picture avaiable
But only selfishly

Taking the advantage
The arrogance of man
His cruelty so evident
I am not a fan
Of watching the great beings
Brutalised and made
To work as slaves
And go to their graves
Watching their bold hearts fade

Giving rides to tourists
The zoo mentality
Living souls become
Infact
Just a commodity
The philosophy of caging
And chaining them
Is wrong
As such these people
Doing this
Simply don’t belong

But corporations
Have risen like diseases
Everywhere
Feeding each other tidbits
It really now is rare
To see the kindly caring
Sanctuaries not
In it just to be
Helping caring and sharing
And working thoughtfully

Instead its to do with balance sheets
Its profit and its loss
The shareholders
The dividends
Who the hell is boss
Animals the unemployed
Workers who become
Lost souls and are regarded
As the unthinking hard working numb

And so infact its torture
Its suffering its there
Before the eyes of all of us
But few around despair
Its all taken for granted
Zoo’s and game parks are
Doing it for money
None of them do star
In seeing tearful eyes
In realising they
Are really being tortured
To death and everyday

The dolphins and the orca’s
And the lions and tigers they
The elephants the animals all of them
Would say
Caged up used in circus
Roped in rodeo
Tortured in the bull rings
Hunted on the go
Ambushed by the safari parks
Their advantages lost and gone
For the animals ad nauseum
Their future One big con

And the tourists are assisting
With their ignorance
For they
are being sold these packages
By the names that do display
Their ugly ideology
Of pampering those who
Know how to take advantage
Of the animals who do

The dirty work slaves to a cause
Not of their making they
Want their freedoms to live their lives
To not be the display
Chained up caged up
Raped of worth
Made to walk on rich mans earth
On his concrete and tarmac where
their feet are aching
With despair

The carers of the human kind
Those who see who are never blind
To the emotional and feelings they
Realise along the way
Who put their effort into trying
To help the animals
Thus defying
the corporations
That now control
Great monsters really Without a soul

Everywhere BIG And SMART
They measure and meter
Without a heart
Its business as usual
Its about control
Get every last drop
Of blood their goal
Profit insentient thats their salvation
Ruling the world
With ingratiation

Keeping the largely powerful
In chains
With threats and with torture
They go to great pains
To keep fear apparent
To maintain their power
Divide and rule
Let them taste what is sour

Those of us fighting
To get back some power
Take on the criminal element
How
We go about doing that
Its mindful and we
Have to fight hard
Just to be where we be

our hearts are alive
For we see eye to eye
We care and we share
And we realize why
The plight of the animal tribes
Everywhere
like the great whales
Harpooned with an arrogant air
The elephants shot by the canned
Hunters gun
The Lions farmed to die
Their bones bleached in the sun

The Chinese TCM with enormous power
This historic message
The masses do cower
In the regions of China
Suffering ill
Still very unmindful
Of the blood that they spill
Now black marketeers
And the spivvery class
Are out slicing fins
Off of sharks
As they pass

All of Natures powerful
Broken and lost
By the corporate cancers
At a terrible cost
To humanities sanity
To each of us who
Stand up and fight
As many now do

Against oil against coal
And nuclear power
Big energy big pharma
They seemingly tower
Above us in stature
But we are out there
Like ants we can see
We can feel
We can share

We use social media
We communicate
We get to grips
With how we can sate
Our worldly appetitites
For bringing change
With our hearts and our souls
We can grow and exchange

We suffer ofcourse we do
We get depressed
We are the Davids
And Goliaths have stressed
Us all out but sling shots
And pebbles we use
And together we really
Are turning the screws

Some may go to prison
Rot in their jails
We may lose our minds
But hard as nails
We will overcome
We will wait and see
For our eyes we use
To see their eyes and be

On the same path to a brighter
Future

All the

About Rex Tyler

I love animals. I enjoy writing poetry and delivering speeches.I like to mentor people who need help in preparing speeches and evaluations.I enjoy travel although it is much harder for me these days.I so enjoyed the Andes Mountains and Volcanoes and the Quichua people who live and thrive there.I have lots of friends around the world.
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