Poems of compassion dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet
with us and the people who fight for them.
Don’t eat meat, please don’t eat meat, that animal once had eyes and
feet
And ears and nose and front legs too, and felt things, just like me and you
A lump of flesh on your plate now, there are baby pigs who miss that sow
Who cry at night with broken hearts, their dear old mum now chopped in parts
Don’t eat meat, please don’t eat meat, that creature had a pulse which beat
And knew Earth’s pains; her pleasures few, yet prized her life, just as we
do
Now sizzling in some person’s pan, killed for the gluttony of man
Who of himself a graveyard makes, and someone’s sacred breath just takes
Don’t eat meat, please don’t eat meat, your brothers and sisters always
treat
With loving kindness, gentle care, because they too this planet share
And weren’t just born for human use, for fear and pain and cruel abuse
Their cries, their screams, the same as ours, just look at how he shudders,
cowers
Such arrogance of the human race, to think they have a special place
In Mother Nature’s warm embrace, that never really was the case
All equal in the Law Divine, each blessed and precious; here to shine
So don’t eat meat, please don’t eat meat, if there’s a face, it’s there to
greet.
©Heidi Stephenson, June 2010
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