Love cannot be measured
by some white coat
with a stethoscope
some shrink dispensing
medication No
Love thats from an animal
for example
all animals effectively
do show
amazing love for humans
if we would only stop
to realise their tremendous
power
of reasoning
they hop
from what they are
to what we need
and often
we don’t see
their love
we only understand
our love
and when we be
loving them as animals
take a pot bellied pig
LULU
and what she chcse to do
to help a human who
she managed to stop the traffic
outside in the street
and get someone
to find her mistress
lying sick
yes this lump of MEAT
she was meat on someone’s plate
to some a bacon roll
but she had love such love to give
she had so much soul
she saved her mistress
that love she gave
because she cared
animals do this all the time
but many are not spared
spare ribs is what they end up as
chops with onion stew
bacon on a piece of toast
that’s what humans do
with apple sauce and carrots
we forget when we
engage our taste buds
and forgo our brain
and lose our tendency
to love and give affection
for all living souls who do
quietly do their loving
in fact in spite of you
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.