What we go through so you can eat yoghurt/ Easter Eggs and the like

What I had to go through

its just too much to say

10,000 of us in these stalls

and many pass away

the anguish and the torment

the sorrow and the grief

the mournfulness and sadness

it is beyond belief

we are little babies

prostrate maybe so

lying curled up in a truck

we have no place to go

the men are outside

swearing

swinging axes high

some are carrying hammers

I think we are going to die

we have some uneasiness

the burden is too much

we are being made a scapegoat

some seem out of touch

have they no compassion

downtrodden we are so

woebegone and desperate

and no one wants to know

as long as they have their yoghurt’s

with fruit and sugar they

couldn’t care a monkeys

what happens any day

we are really mortified

that human children do

not think one iota about us

for it is  sadly true

we are little children

of ungulates and we

need their help

need them saying

it should never be

the dairy milk is for the cows

not for us mother, we

need to buy another type of yoghurt

actually

it really is unpleasant to see

these men around

they are so very odious

and deformed that’s what I’ve found

the tailgate suddenly slips a bolt

and they are on us, they

are beating us with hammers

and a pick axe too today

the pain my head is broken

I cannot see my eye

is bleeding I’m receding

now just where I lie

and all the other calves

I knew all of them now die

beaten to submission

its best then to lie

still

if you start the kicking phase

they bash you till you will

lie still for thats their reason

to stop the beating game

the agony I am feeling

I have never felt the same

as calves we get such treatment

we are babies after all

these farmers do not care for us

they drive us to the wall

they murder us now daily

we don’t stand a chance

nobody now loves us

we don’t get a second glance

your children eat their yoghurt’s

their little cheeses too

its milk in drinking chocolate

and in the chocolate too

us calves will never see the light

of day

never again

all the while your children

are party to our pain