


It was in the rain
That I saw my eyes
Fall away from me
And I lost my sight.
It was in that downpour
That my words hollowed out
I was left silent, but aching
My lungs filled with a drought.
Under the barrage of bullets
Wet, but aching to the skin
All my thoughts left me
So rain took over within.
I cried out, “LET IT STOP”
As it weighed down my body
All hope washed away
Dreams swam far from me.
Vulnerable and bare
Under a street light I drowned
Till the rays of the dawn
Began to bring me around.
I stood shivering and cold
Before the glare of the sun.
All mistakes and all triumphs
Erased and undone.
Below me lay the wreckage
Of my life washed away
So I set off, bewildered
And I began to reclaim.
Since the dawn of humanity, there remains a group so persistently abused and marginalized, that their suffering is ingrained in our everyday lives. If animals could talk, their chorus of cries would drown out every other sound in the world. - Author unknown
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. - Alice Walker
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. - George Bernard Shaw
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. - Murray Banks