Can you hear the the true heartbreak
a nightmare that’s waking
affliction and distress
ululation that’s breaking
eternal damnation
wretched despair
boiling hot water
poured everywhere
to the great depths of misery
hearing it’s cry
an unravelling scream
as it it slowly must die
being scraped of its skin
each chafing lament
disgusts and sickens
utter torment
it expects, some aid
but all that it feels
is more boiling water
that totally seals
the violent scalding
the obtuseness of man
Whose dead pan expressions
is how it began
despicable buggers
iniquitous they
degrade by the second
and in one day
one hopes they choke violently
on the odd bone
Creating a karmic
vile under tone
hearing that squealing that rasping
that pain
it cuts into the heart
there was nothing to gain
from this inhuman murder
deaf to it all
to consume
the unspotted
is a complicit fall
into the abyss.
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.