A tiger is stripped of its fur by the low life butchers

All smiles from the men
looking on , as they strip
the fur from the tiger
who made his last trip
to anywhere, murdered for what
some believe
are his bones and his skin
and his parts
they retrieve

there he lays in such agony
dignity lost
held down by many
how it has cost
not only his life
but his pain and his woe
skinned alive it is
definitely no way to go

its the look on the men’s faces
I can’t abide
having done what they’ve done
you would think they would hide
but no they are pleased
having murdered this soul
having tortured the life out of it
the control
seems to have boosted their ego’s and they
are contemptible savages
bent on display

sucked into the maelstrom
a blood curdling vault
all of this agony
was never sought
the Tiger’s freedom
compromised by
the traditional culture
the medicine’s lie

rooted in history
culturally so
TCM sits in the psyche we know
and animals suffer distinctly because
of an outmoded system
where reality was
East and west seemingly are different, and we
don’t see eye to eye
in the way things now be
there’s a lack of compassion
where money’s involved
in every country
how things have evolved

but this takes the biscuit
this stripping of skin
from a tiger held down
by the collective sin
of men who must realise
this creatures pain
but just do it anyway
and do it again
and photograph it
and post it worldwide
with everyone smiling
nothing denied

proudly displaying
the most gruesome gore
of a tiger stripped clean
of its fur and some more
in a most bloodied state
in complete agony
stretched out and portrayed
for the whole world to see