Personal Expression

An Enigma

My mind, heart, and soul will never know…
…how someone can be amused by a rodeo.
How can human beings be entertained…
…by an act where such terror is sustained?
A deep sense of sadness has been struck…
….at those who’d force a docile steer, to buck,
giving the ‘appearance’ that it is fierce…
….by using bucking straps that clinch and pierce.
We take our kids to the circus and zoo,
but they both portray a distorted view.
If the truth was told, children would be enraged…
…at creatures whipped and beaten, confined and caged.
Circus animals did not volunteer.
Their tricks and performances are based on fear.
There is such despicable deceit…
…in a fur coat sold to the ‘elite’.
I am completely perplexed and unsure…
….how humans can kill for animal’s fur.
The original owner agonized…
...for this status symbol women have prized.
Fur bearing animals are grossly abused.
In trapping for fur, brutal methods are used.
Each year, millions of dogs are put to death.
The dog breeder steals a living dog’s breath.
Dogs and cats in shelters live on ‘death row’,
while people keep pretending not to know.
They shop at pet stores stocked by a puppy mill…
….while barrels of ‘euthanized animals’ fill.
How can we be entertained by those…
…whose misery we, humans, impose?
Man’s CAPABILITY to inflict pain…
….remains an enigma I can’t explain.
Torturing the helpless and being amused…
…is an enigma that has left me confused.
I CANNOT HELP but to feel disgrace…
…and embittered by the human race.

By M. Butterflies Katz, Gentle World.
From her website http://www.veganpoet.com.