The
sinking of the Gulf ‘Livestock’ 1
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.
The sinking of the Gulf ‘Livestock’ 1
By Heidi Stephenson
Five
thousand
thousand
thousand
thousand
thousand!
Eight
hundred
hundred
hundred
hundred
hundred
hundred
hundred
hundred
young
“cattle”
died
this week,
in a mass
sinking.
Trapped in
a “hold,”
unable
to escape,
to swim,
to struggle free,
the waters
rising -
till healthy
lungs filled,
to bursting.
These gentle
brothers who
were never destined
(in the Divine Mind)
to be ‘meat’
to be sea cows
…drowned.
The coastguard,
global press,
shipping company
politicians
only concerned
about the
forty two
human crew.
‘Food’ for
deepest
thought…
The Gulf Livestock 1 - Image from MarineTraffic.com via
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©Heidi Stephenson, September 2020
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