Taking Notice
By Rachel Hamill
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves.

Taking Notice
By Rachel Hamill

Do you shed a tear? 
When an animal's death draws near?
I do

Do you suddenly cry? 
Every time you hear of another that dies?
I do

Do you wonder why?
The innocent are sent to die?
I do 

Do you wonder why?
At a babes first baby breath, 
He is already condemned to death?
I do

Do you even pay attention? 
To how the animal's deaths are never mentioned?
I do

Do you ever listen to? 
The cries the animals cry to you?
I do

Do you even see how long?
This wrongness has been going on? 
I do

Do you?


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