We owe it to them

We are culpable if we indeed
Decide to look away
Just tick good on Facebook
And let the Sea life pay
It’s disrespect of those that do
Respect their life and we
Are in dereliction of our duty
It’s disloyalty

We know it is wrong to put
Sea life into tanks
We don’t need laws to tell us
What is right it really ranks
In all our hearts much higher
Than just looking away
Going about our business
There is nothing to say

There is no absolution
We should get no reprieve
How can we ever justify
The indulgence to believe
How totally remorseless
We are to follow through
To let these aqua parks go on
As they are trying to

For them it’s about money
Shareholders and the rest
Who really are untruthful
Arrogant at best
It’s brainwashing for certain
The trainers get it all
They become the evangelists
Always they on call

Saddled with their false knowledge
The hypocrisy is rife
It’s really legal fiction
It’s nothing to do with life
It’s a pretence to go after
The orca’s and them all
To keep them in the prison
With the never changing wall

Doped up to the falsity of
Tanks life every day
Nothing living anywhere
Where the chemicals all spray
It really is deceitful these misstatements
Do no good
It’s generally exaggeration
Just because they could

And we we are the activists
We go all out and try
But we are up against the
Corporations and the legal teams
Who lie
Each one helps each other
It’s called yes corporate power
And because of course they are voiceless
The chlorinated shower

Continues over all of them
The buckets of dead fish
The lifeless tanks of concrete
The anti biotic wish
It’s billed as entertainment
It’s purdah to be sure
It’s morose and forbidding
God forsaken and some more