The mv BAHIJAH registered in the Marshall Islands
Was bound for Israel via the Red Sea
Shipped from Freemantle back in January
All these poor animals now where they be
Stuck in the holds in a heat wave apparently
Farmers and the Meat Trade
It’s so bloody cruel
Live export irreverence
Terrible judgement
Just after profits
Despite much more fuel
Why was it sent
It was consigned to Israel
It had no chance it was wrong
From the start
All of those animals
Feeling the stress of it
They are being punished
Condemned this great cart
Load of the lifeless
The stressed out the fearful
Thousands of sheep
And cattle as well
It was misjudgement
To my mind illegal
The warring should stop this
Going into hell
There are no excuses
Costs are not claimable
Innocent animals why should they pay
Take off the dead and ship
The balance
Where to for goodness sake
Israel no way
Wickedness sinfulness
Flagrant disregard
Too much dishonesty
Each one will be scarred
Opportunism that’s what we see
Leave them in OZ
That’s where they should be
A lack of pity
No charity
Where’s the benevolence
Where can it be
The warring parties
The risky Red Sea
It’s consigned to Israel
It’ll be sunk seems to me
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.