A Renegade on Christmas Day

By the time some of you read this
Many of my friends
Will have been sadly eaten
The message that that sends
Is one of absolute misery
For I too might have been
Jointed and Annointed
It so gets me in the spleen!

Infact i had my ears tagged
They’d painted to confirm
I was going to get the chop
To feel the yuletide squirm
Cattle trucks to slaughter
Hung up and away
Bled out like the next one
On this great Christmas Day

But I was far from ready
My heart was filled with pain
To go to meet the supermarket call off
Not again
My life was one great miracle
Life for me was good
Why did I have to die tHat day
Because they deemed I should

So I got myself close to the front
And when they opened the doors
I leapt into the spirit
Again without applause
I ran like hell
I did not look back
Despite their evil plea’s
I just ran like the clappers
Right into the trees

And I just kept on running
Running for all my worth
I could feel the roots and thistles
Growing out of the earth
I could hear my heart a beating
Like a massive drum
To the music of true freedom
Helping me to see
I wouldn’t be a carcass
I would so be free

And entering the forest
The darklands I was sure
All my friends had already died
How can one ignore
That truth that evil reckoning
Inside of me I knew
They were in somebodys
Guts
And thats not a pleasant view

For me it became apparent
I was all alone
A cow had run her srse off
A new seed though was sown
A new life in the forest
Beckoned and surely
I could be a wild cow
Roaming ever free

As it transpired
I was taken in
By red deer
With acclaim
Treated like a hero
They called me that by name
And for years we strolled
The meadows hidden from the eyes
Of the hunting fraternity
And their vacant lies