Stupor

A glimpse of what is happening
In plain sight some can see
But others I am sad to say
The great majority
Look at this and cannot really see
What the hell we are on about
Which is why we be

Really so frustrated at the insentience
About
Then numbness and the stupor
It really is a rout
The Orca’s and the Dolphins
And those animals that we
Use for entertainment
Why does this have to be

Perhaps the impassivity
The imperception here
And the general unconsciousness
Fuelled no doubt by fear
Unmoved unstirred and half hearted
Sluggish and supine
So many have the eyes to see
But seem to miss the sign

They have this kind of blankness
Unastonished they have become
They walk passed as we protest
Their faces more than glum
We shout out for freedom
For the animals we love
And they complain about the noise
And actually do shove

Us physically, out of the way
No matter what we do
And so this video says it all
It takes the point of view
That frustration fills so many
The unbelief around
There is a real insanity
And an idiocy I have found

We persecute so many
With our loony bin of lies
Driven mad by wacky loony
Potty dotty eyes
They look at us as if we are mad
Protesting in the street
Why don’t we get a proper job
And become the new elite

We are the new unhinged brigade
Because we show we care
We are prepared to give our time
Just to all get there
Penned in by their fences
We shout to kingdom come
Fighting for the animals
Everyone a chum

I am so disappointed
We are thwarted at every stage
And could go away crestfallen
And sort of in a rage
Baffled by the sadness
Let down by the mood
Obstructed by the apathy
Shackled by the crude

So dressing up as Orca’s
And dolphins what we do
Is show it like it happens
Pointing yea at you
And you and you if you are
One of the sleeping mass
Embarrassed by our outpouring
That you believe is crass

We are startling you with reality
Letting you see how we
See the wild shackled in our chains
Their adversity
Is commonplace around the world
In every walk of life
From the Elephants to the Dolphins
We share with you some strife

We step upon your body
As you soak up the sun
We come around and photograph
You when your day is done
We make it clear how sad we are
To be captured all the time
And locked away in cages
And be written up in rhyme

We are part of a wild goose chase
Or so it appears to some
Repulsed by all and sundry
Under the rich man’s thumb
Bull hooked and defeated
Thrown in some blue tank
Driven into Taiji cove
Where everything is rank
Hung up on some gantry
And milked until we are dry
Pressed into gestation crates
Until we have to die

Such misery is apparent
For all the earthling friends
Their wretchedness is our doing
The message that it sends
The utter humiliation
Its a plague upon this earth
Their misfortune that the masses
Cannot feel their worth

Not just to be a target
Not a skin to bloody wear
Not a dog or cat to be eaten
And treated till despair
Supposedly makes more tender flesh
The horns are deemed to be
Good for your libido
Thats why you slaughter me

We have reached a calamitous state
And as activists we do
Try everything that we can think of
Comedy even too
Many of us women struggling along
But prepared to share our leisure
By showing some how wrong
They are ignoring issues
And letting the animals die
And being part of their problem
Which is really why

I write poems daily
And send them everywhere
Like seeds some fall on concrete paths
Unseeing they lay there
Others though are seen by people
And change peoples minds
We all have ways of helping
Putting up the signs

The animals are helpless
They need us so they do
They are not for entertainment
Or containment in a zoo
They were born as we their freedom
Is as much to do with how
We treat ourselves as humans
Living in the now