To the AR Community

To the AR community everywhere
The warriors on the front line
Those locked down at their computers
Yet more petitions to sign
All of us fight hard to save them
The animals in captivity
For all of their life
And tasting that strife
And we know what it feels like don’t we

The weather is brighter
The morning skies blue
Buds are now bursting
So much to view
All of us worrying
But we can see
Despite all the news
That is on BBC
Outside that bubble
Spring surely sprang
It’s warmer it’s clearer
Something to hang

Just More humility
Putting ourselves
forward a bit
Where the forester delves
Looking for truffles
Digging up roots
All the fresh smells
And The mud on our boots

Drying much quicker
In this fine balmy Air
Tits laying blue eggs
With fear everywhere
But life still goes on
The colours we see
The smell of apple blossoms
Sweet as can be

The politics crazy
Depression out there
They talk up the madness
The grief and despair
But we are the fighters
The warrior clan
On the front line
Since fighting began
Outside the big stores
With our banners galore
That keeps us happy
That kind of war

Fighting the fur buyers
The foie gras on tap
Calves being ditched
No time to nap
We are not giving up
Now we have time
To get on their case more
And post every rhyme

We know what is happening
It’s affecting our lives
Live exports in our thoughts
For the one who survives
Where others collapse
Beaten up they
Need us to fight for them
Want us to stay

Focused and awake
Ready to try
and wake up with the sun
Beating out of the sky
With a sweep of the kite
In his sonorous flight
Chats to himself
Puts himself right
Sees down below
A nice rat in the grass
And is down in a flash
Just like making a pass

Every single animal
Born to our world
Needs love and attention
And we have been hurled
Into the melting pot
Warriors we
Who get our joy
For what we can see
What we can do to help
Every one
That like us feels joy
In the heat of the sun

The evenings are lighter
The sky colours reveal
Beautiful peacefulness
It’s the spring deal
Fertility bursting
Present events
Most of really
Can’t make any sense

But we have ourselves
Our love for each other
We have a wish to be kind
And to mother
our animals.
yes we do we have to care
If we are not doing it
Well then what’s fair

Let’s think positivity
Shared joyful times
Watching the temperature gauge as it climbs
As the under story draws light
And it’s blaze
Of colour is evident
In subtle ways

For myself I feel happy
The birdsong I hear
The bees they are busy
With blossoms which cheer
Wood pigeons courting
Hear their bright coo’s
Despite doom around us
All this is good news

We have the fulfilment
And science inside
We see every movement
And we don’t want to hide
Away it is true
But we see still around
We Feel what is real
With our feet on the ground

We have each other
AR brigades
On Facebook on twitter
Our closeness ne’r fades
We have stood together
Barking away for the dolphins the orca’s
The Lions
have held sway
Talking and walking and telling
And showing
In wind and rain
When hell it was blowing
All of us out there
Fighting for fur
Fighting for cruelty
Yes we all were

Don’t be disheartened any of you
I for one love everyone
Good and true
We still have the internet
We still need to be
Cajoling the rotters
Who think differently

INSPIRED BY TIZIANA QUINN a warrior friend in Ireland

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