Grace
Animal Rights Poetry and Prose By Heidi Coon 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.

Grace
By Heidi Coon

When you sit for Christmas, will you say ‘Grace’?
Will you stack animal body parts on plates?
An FYI, just in case…
[erase what’s commonplace]
Your roast had a face
Will you continue to embrace?
For the sake of taste?
This Christmas, don’t just say ‘grace’
Try instead, to actually show a trace…

Know that each & every act of kindness
is an act of defiance
against vileness
Reject compliance
[blindness]
[mindless]
Shed the necrovore trance
It’s madness
A corpse swallowing reliance
[virus]
For life, take a stance
Rightness
Alliance

If you don’t show kindness,
You show;
Meanness
Mercilessness
Selfishness
Thoughtlessness
Harshness
Indifference

Show grace

Take the side of life
Replace your steak knife
With a bread knife.

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