Our little haven for animals, our little torch of compassion in a cruel human system. While the outside around us keep force breeding and pushing for slaughter. Our little space in this corner fights with gentle compassion for a kinder now, for the hope of a gentle future or the hope of A future. While the farmers’ cows moo and call out their needs, our cows sit in peace knowing they have all they need. Knowing their humans will never hurt or exploit them. Knowing their humans will fight for them with everything they possess. Our peacocks regard us with an indigo gaze, do they know our hearts are true?
The storm clouds
gather, the thunder rumbling in the distance like a prehistoric dinosaur. The
colours darken, the air becomes thick with the taste of ozone. How long can we
hope for rain to fall, for water to be available? It is not guaranteed anymore.
We are all aware, you and I, that the cost to our earth is great, the cost of
the choices we make. But so many still don't care, haven't made the connection,
refuse to listen, refuse to change. How much do the other earthlings have to
pay for humankind’s wilfull ignorance? How much do we have to pay for it? Those
of us that talk every day, trying to help our fellow humans connect the dots.
Trying so hard, in so many ways to reach out, to break other minds free; that
sadly seem to just want to find excuses not to think, not to be responsible, to
blame and fingerpoint others for the mess they are in.
We the people can
make the difference, we can vote right now what is acceptable and what is not,
we choose what we buy, what we condone, what and whom we follow. We are all
free thinkers, we can all choose not to be unkind from the moment we wake in
the morning to the moment we sleep. From the first words we use, to the first
meal we cook, to whether we wear another earth animals skin, to whether we let
other humans hurt and kill on our behalf, if we choose to turn a blind eye to
someone else's pain, if we reach out our hand, if we give what we can, or if we
keep for ourselves.
Change comes from
one person, joining another and another, you are all significant in the
process. You can all make the difference between getting better, being kinder,
healing our world or continuing with traditions, cultures and beliefs that have
led us to the point of wars, collapse, extinction.. you are the change. The
rest of the natural world is waiting for humans to change, some of them just
clinging on to survival, the whole world is watching us, are you taking note?
Thousands of species have died in my lifetime, I don't want to part of this
problem, do you? As they die in their billions, their voices clamouring to be
heard, can you hear yet? Can you change to be kinder? We have such an amazing,
beautiful, achingly exquisite planet to call home, why insist on destroying
what we need to survive?
So we sit and we
ponder, Clyde and I, how best to reach the chained hearts and grey minds. As
the storm clouds roll in, I wish they could wash away the heinous choices my
fellow humans continue to make, people that have the ability to be kind - just
choose not to be about what they eat. We are all of this world, we all pay for
the choices you make.
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