Heidi StephensonDESESPERADO
Animal Rights Poetry By Heidi Stephenson From All-Creatures.org

Poems of compassion dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet with us and the people who fight for them.

DESESPERADO
By Heidi Stephenson

To All Male Chicks (And Billie Goats)

You cannot breed,
You cannot breed.
So you will bleed!
You will bleed!

You will bleed,
For all their greed.
Because of you
They have no need.
Beyond the use
Of one-off seed.
You cost too much
They say, to feed.
They have no care,
To see you freed,
To pleasant mead,
‘Mongst grass and reed.

You cannot breed,
You cannot breed.
So you will bleed!
You will bleed!

You will bleed;
You won’t be freed,
If in terror
You have peed,
No guilty sweat
Will even bead.
No mercy
In their wicked deed.
You’re a statistic
That they read.
A nothing
In their man-made creed.

You cannot breed,
You cannot breed.
So you will bleed!
You will bleed!

You will bleed -
So please take heed!
Run and hide
Beneath the weed.
Don’t end up chopped alive
…As feed!
Get away now,
Take the lead!
Save your skin
From ghouls in tweed.

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