Today’s words: Pigeon, China, Satan, Scallop
Word count: 250
Completion time: 23 minutes
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Why do we torment and criticise other animals
For being inferior? Looking at the world through different eyes,
See, they aren’t like you and I, they don’t feel like we feel
Their pain isn’t recognised, who cares if they die?
People screw their faces up, at little pups in China
Who get served alongside a variety of food.
Not to be rude, but I’m over the line of thought
That is shocked and appalled by yet another animal...
Yet another innocent life we carve up with knives
And say it’s alright, it’s justified, because
They don’t feel like you and I.
A pigeon was sat on a bench the other day
And someone kicked it away like it could contaminate,
Like it would be great if they could be cast away
Like Satan from the heavens. Why?
They didn’t disobey but they have no say because why?
They can’t speak like you and I?
Judge like you and I?
We don’t need to buy something to think that we own it
No cash needs to change hands to know we can have it
The scallops on the beach, the ocean deep
Everything we see, we claim just by looking.
We take parts of the world and reduce them to nothing
Just by looking
I look to you and see myself reflected right back
We’re on the attack, you and I
We don’t give a fuck, you and I
It’s in our nature to rely
On things that can’t fight back.
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