Be one with cows with sheep with pigs
Share the order of their lives
The harmonious and the strict
Regulated and orderly
We must not evict
Them from their genuine wildness
Their beginning and their end
Their reconciliation that they
Demonstrate and send
How they deal with isolation
How they tolerate the ways
Husbandry is thrown around
And cruelty that stays
Torturing their inner soul
The repetition too
Dealing with infinity
Live exports darkly view
Periods of containment
Torture through and through
Perpetual and long lasting
It’s how the farmers do
Such rotten things to all of us
Shipments made by sea
Crammed together sharing sweat and shit
And wee
Being forced together
Suffering the plight
Of nightmares and the violence
Of yes night after night .
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.