It is alleged that someone from
the Gujarat High Court
dragged a dog along the street
and it was because they thought
the dog was possibly rabid
and had bitten people, so
they thought they would drag it up the street
really in full show
there’s nothing quite so awful
as acting in this way
it causes immense suffering
and made an animal pay
really so severely
how were they thinking they
could do this
was it some revenge
on a poor old stray
these people appear senseless
their judgement shot away
how kind of those two women
who stopped them on that day
and spent some 4 hours waiting
with what the dying stray
Whoever these men were
they now will have to pay
to me their mode of action was
lacking any empathy
that they thought it was because
the dog was rabid actually
seems an excuse for cruelty
on a scale that should never be
egregious torture
and just base depravity
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.