Animal Emotions

Animal emotions
some would have us believe
the consensus they have nothing
no feeling to retrieve
no conscience nor emotion
a parallel that I
know is wrong
but Texas
where do they belong

Marc Bekoff’s book
is banned in certain libraries
how sad, that is
the Natural World repond’s
and so I’m rather glad
“we have the emotion
and we have the devotion
it isn’t just a notion
for we are from the ocean
a special world that’s deeper
than any world you know
and our feelings of elation
for you all can only grow”