5 million dogs a year smuggled from Thailand to Laos and Vietnam ( for dog meat trade)

In awful cages
packed so tight
crushed together
faces white
crippled bodies
a broken leg
consumed with pain
and with eyes that beg
anyone who they can see
to save them from this agony
clad in puke
and blood and snot
thrown about
why have they got
in such a state
is there a clue
to how they suffer
and why they do

The Mekong river
hears the cries
the yelping
where the weak one dies
and is eaten partially
by those left
their stomachs aching
they’re bereft
of sustenance
and of water, they
have travelled crated up
they pay
a price for being strays
out here
where there is always
hours of fear

they are whipped and kicked
and thrown about
they shit themselves
with no rules to flout
anything goes
and everything can
be done to the dogs
by the smuggler man
he’s a rogue
and nasty fiend in fact
high on drugs
that why they’re packed
head to paw and paw to heel
because these so called men
can’t feel

any emotion
any at all
most of of them
are off the wall
high on drugs
and illicit booze
they themselves
have little to lose
they don’t know love
most, they just roam
no family to speak of
they have no home
they make some money
and spend it fast
they are in a rut
where they were cast

the dogs mean nothing
not to them
the smuggling trade
is quite a gem
they do it at night
its a lucrative job
as long as you know
how to keep your gob
closed, and they do
they have no friends
nobody cares
when the journey ends
if they cross someone
its curtains and they
its a knife in the guts
that’s how they pay

disease is rife
rabies rules
all sorts of illness
some are ghouls
they work in the gutters
and reap the woe
as to what is right
they don’t want to know
5 million dogs
are shipped each year
look at their faces
the terror and fear
the bludgeoning deaths
torn from their cage
to be boiled alive
in a frightened rage

in a broth of lemon grass
bubbling high
these hounds are cooked
and fill the sky
with the aromatic scent of death
as they all suck in
their final breath
in certain places in Hanoi
a dog meat dish brings
utter joy
the rich will pay a ransom for
a plate of agony and gore

Soi Dog is a group that tries
avidly despite the size
despite the syndicates so strong
to prove to many just how wrong
its going for an all out ban
well that today has to be the plan
tireless effort is what they do
petitions, talk they take the view
the trade is evil and so bad
the government must act
if it had

thought it through it has to soon
institute some laws to fight
the agony the cruelty
for everyone knows its not right
tourism is what Thailand needs
and scenes like this spread the vile seeds
across the world where dogs are seen
as man’s best friend,if you have been

through Bangkok and its markets where
dogs wait in cages, its not fair
they yelp they cry their doleful gaze
the internet where tweeting pays
the world is waking up to pain
and Thailand has to think again

this smuggling racket has to end
smuggling millions of man’s best friend
treating them badly their bloodied eyes
each tourist who hears their beleaguered cries
who may see their death come swift and slow
as beaten and into the pot they go

its a vile expression
that taunts the soul
you can’t forget it
its then your role
to return and do something
to end this grief
because it is beyond belief

its really happening
in your face
and of course it is a complete
disgrace
these are people of course
like you and me
who have sunk
into depths of depravity

they are mindless louts
they are heartless sods
swinging their sticks
and their metal rods
belting the life out of
innocent mutts
and tearing great holes
in living guts

these are the people
that want our dough
they are crying out
for us to go
and exchange our money so they can be
murdering dogs so we can see

well not any more
the savage breast
has seen the worst
and has shared the rest
it has to stop
and stop right now
and soi dog and others
now show us how