a plea from a lamb trying to reach its mother

Mother dearest mother

why am I here today

will I be gone tomorrow

this green writing it does say

they are wanting to kill me

why me I am so small

what do they want to do with me?

it drives me up the wall

imagining the reason

they took me away from you

inked my back in all this green

what are they going to do

someone said I’m  for the chop

its lambs that humans eat

with mint sauce and with vinegar

for them it is a treat

but I don’t want to leave you

I love ewe dear mama

I love the life of dance and play

why would they think you are

someone to be distanced from

they truthfully are bad

don’t they have a soul at all

why do they make us sad

why mother what have I done wrong

I am innocent and true

and I so love you mother

they seem so clueless too

if I can just get up with you

do you think they will let me be

maybe they will let me stay

with you so please help me

otherwise its the slaughterhouse

that ugly building where

animals walk in the front entrance

and come out of there

all chopped up in pieces

ready for the pot

so humans go and buy a tray

which they do a lot

so soon I may be hanging

upside down on some chain

the world is topsy turvy

will may never meet again

in Summerland’s perhaps dear

in a bright green field somewhere

to share the tasty clover

away from such despair

I hope so dearest mother

these human beings they

are the vilest creatures on this earth

its what I had to say

and I don’t care if they hear me

I’m a baby afterall

and who goes eating babies

just that thought does appaL