Indian Circus (cruelty with the price of a ticket)

Indian Circus
appears to be big business
its been around a few years too
and draws
quite a crowd apparently
mostly to see the Elephants
perform some meaningless tricks
but there are flaws

in all of this and what we see
is cruelty
its blatant its not hidden
it appears
to be what trainers do to their wild
charges
bash them with a spike
behind their ears

now elephants are big and strong
and heavy
but a spike behind your ears
it really hurts
the pain is clearly evident
the way the elephant jumps
and from its eyes the tears
oh yes it squirts

its agonising watching grown men
do this
to animals that could crush them
with one sweep
crush them into powder
but all resist temptation
really its enough to make you weep

they get a constant battering
upon their legs and thighs
under the curtain on their private parts too,
realise
they suffer how they suffer
for the right to entertain
Indian’s who clearly don’t realise that pain

that’s inflicted time and time again
there are lesions everywhere
cuts and whips and lacerations
just complete despair
and really what’s it all about
so an elephant can perform
climb on some rickety table
and let the big crowd warm

to what this soul is doing
testing its weight to try
and get the crowd to gasp a bit
but no one asks now why?
they go out in their hundreds
part with their rupees
and watch an animals getting beaten
its all a bloody wheeze

it gives the trainers space to really
brutalize and cause
fear within those animals
and in fact they seldom pause
the Peta film from India
is explicit for we see
torture during a live show
they don’t care obviously

Circus is such terror for the animals
they use
really it is pure and simple
the trainers do abuse
their station circus should be banned
closed down right away
and leave the elephants where they were born
from the circus, far away