Animal Rights Poetry and Prose from All-Creatures.org

Love, Deep and Free By Sandra Isobel Kyle, May Safely Graze

I'm nobody's mother
No grandchild on my knee
I'm nobody's sweetheart
No one looks out for me.

And yet my backyard birdies
Flock around my door
They're waiting for the food I share
And then they ask for more!

The sparrows know my footstep
The blackbird knows my voice
The little cat next door drops by
I see him and rejoice!

The chickens they come running
Demanding what is due -
No one’s ever loved me
As loudly as they do!

I've bottle-fed a bobby calf
Who didn’t have a name
He blinked at me with grateful trust
And somehow I felt claimed.

Many I've held who didn't stay
Their lives I couldn’t save
But even brief love leaves behind
Memories that remain.

So let me not be small and sad
the love I have has not gone bad
It only widened, deep and free
For all the beings who need me.

© Sandra Isobel Kyle, 2026

Photo Credit: Summer Jayne, Taranaki Animal Save

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Posted on All-Creatures.org: September 23, 2026
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