Romania and its attitudes towards strays

Its a fearful place to live and die

Romania remains

a really dark environment

to describe it truly strains

the spirit and the heart, in fact

for 4 million or so are

on the streets just left to fend

and we have to say its far

and away the most sad situation

for dog catchers abound

employed, by the city halls

that is whats been found

the shelters are just slaughter places

death is everywhere

corpses lie, so many die

and no one seems to care

the animals are caged up

and treated just like waste

corruption is beyond belief

even a tiny taste

of what goes on not just behind

closed doors but in the street

is enough to get you crying

it really will unseat

the strongest souls imaginable

for the evil does abound

the average person seemingly

sharing that same ground

turn away, they do not care to see

whats going on

and gradually the problem

grows till all the dogs are gone

some are killed by strangulation

other raped and eaten

some are murdered in the street

repeatedly are beaten

its a horrid scenario

for animal cruelty there

is really as bad as it can get

which of course now isn’t fair

there’s money but its going to the wrong places

I fear

its ending up in the death camps

where doleful eyes appear

they must know what is happening

from the curdled yelps and cries

the ravaging of cats and dogs

almost before one’s eyes

the attitude of people

apparently is so

so many problems on the streets

most dont want to know

they look away

they haven’t got the means

to understand

and everywhere you see their pitiful faces

on the land

the countryside packs of them

the weakest eaten by

the strongest its  so hellish

our question now is why

if there’s money and there’s people

this, cannot be solved

corruption seems the problem

nobody’s evolved

a strategy to save them

its easier that they die

and this is why the the problems aired

in Romania  and why

I have written this poem

to bring the story out

to awaken peoples senses

and stop this evil rout

each soul is an individual

with a heart and soul

and giving them such a rotten life

is wrong thats not their role

creation gave each one a chance

and we are letting them down

and in a sense ourselves as well

so we must go to town

on sorting this and bringing back some humanity

into the shared environment