What seems to have escaped
the general public’s gaze
for me
is the corporate stampede
going on which clearly most
don’t see
the huge display of cruelty
on a scale one deems to feel
when these concentrated animals feed
operatives are real
vast prison camps where animals are hooked
up to the scheme
raised for a short period
and then shackled
as they scream
their hearts
in that moment when
clearly most must be
aware of their
impending deaths
in great clouds of misery
surely we as human souls
must see this now as wrong
we have to have respect for life
in us that power is strong
to be so unforgiving of another
seems to me
to not grant them a fitting end
to a short stay
tragically
creates in them such awful fear
there really is no way
that any soul should die like this
in their millions every day
to satisfy the blood lust
of so many who would pay
the piper for the pleasure
so the violence has to stay
selling and turning over
a healthy profit may
justify a reason
but for me its not okay
it needs a complete re think
of one’s truest morals for we
are more than just eating machines
and they are definately
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.