Greece exposed “a child’s playground and a dog who died there and for what will somebody explain this to me and NOW”

This morning seeing this
small dog hanging by a rope
made me sink into myself
am I to lose all hope
in what once was humanity
mankind and all that stuff
as a animal rights poet
have I seen enough?
am I, too give up the ghost
and realise that we
are too far down the road
and reaching true depravity
to ever now imagine
there is a way back and
by trying to be positive
and trying to understand
what’s happening and why is it
that human beings do
such really rather grotesque acts
some just out of the blue

here we have a playground
where little children play
and hanging on the railings
a dog has been left today
the dog has been hung
its dead, its there
for all of us to see
why its happened
and why its there
is it the mystery

that some might tell us
candidly
to me the hate appears
everywhere engendered
by a wealth of unknown fears
that cruelty has surfaced
and risen to such a height
is a critical distraction
with a quite destructive bite

its the general numbing process
that’s been going on for years
it used to be subliminal
but now despite the tears
its in the face of everyone
who choose just to switch on
and absorb the propaganda
now openly played upon

all the general networks
its every single day
I chose to throw the telly in the skip
which was a ray
of hope for me, but others
continue just to be
open to the garbage
fed to them hourly

they are messing with your heads
and they are messing with your guts
people are turning into trolls
as each corporation struts
its stuff across the planet
like huge machines we see
them even spending millions
to oppose pure sanity

so wickedness is growing
immorality is here
degeneration of a species
seemingly is clear
and the animal earthlings suffer
the frustration some now feel
all the pent up anger
that for some is very real

irredeemable irreclaimable
and infernal march to hell
Greece exposes problems
and abyss some know so well
a daily vice of terror
unleashed for all to see
the conscienceless are out there
as debauched as they can be

alongside them are angels
ready to give a hand
ready to love and care for
so its hard to understand
how neighbours living closely
some turn bad and those
others remain angels
worthy of some prose

it comes down to our thinking
are we selfishly to be
soaking up the media
so unthinkingly
perhaps if we just thought it through
a bit more we might see
how we were being led astray
how we were now less free

to make our own sweet choices
to care and love those who
shared the same philosophy
and many others do
this dog now hanging on a chain
in a children’s playground seems
to be there perhaps to warn us all
he is real, some of the dreams

we had, and all the nightmares
are coming home to roost
the perpetrators of these crimes
maybe they get a boost
from seeing their work on the internet
but this little soul who died
who was hung by his poor hungry neck
got kind of
crucified!

there is no rhyme or reason
for all species can share
the water and the food that’s grown
and of course the air
there is no fear that any of this
will ever run out, we
must share for sharing is the price
of true humanity

corporate greed has stifled
the principle of love
its frightened many people
the clutter from above
is reaching peoples stomachs
its reaching peoples ears
its tearing at their sinew
and creating in them fears

they look around for scapegoats
they have no power and they
feel now so frustrated
they make the weaker pay
its the same corporate methods
adopted by the poor
on those considered poorer
who have to know what for

with arguments always raging
Greece descends each day
its animals are going through the mill
how can we allay?
the suffering they are feeling
the hardships that become
important to those now immersed
as they hear the incessant drum
of humanity now pounding
inside their being, they
are being drawn down ever deeper
every single day

and those who cannot hack it
take it out on those
who also cannot hack it
and so the feeling grows
and the animals are feeling it
every single soul
is getting close to breaking point
no one can console

anyone,the cacophony
is almost too loud and we
observe the evil coming out
of Greece its exposed and we see
horror, terror, evil and every single hour
hear the cries of anguish
as the powerless people cower
inside themselves inside their heads
inside their hovels, they
are all crying like babies
but nobody knows a way

out of it all

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