Imagine It’s You!

by Supreme Master Ching Hai

Confined in a dirty tiny little crate
Don’t know how to spell s-p-a-c-e-space-
Wading in filth and urine and stench
Never feel the sun or breeze on my skin!
Are these made only for human beings?
Can’t neither turn to the left nor right
How can anyone eat such lovely beings?
Forced-fed drugs till you loose your mind!
Sweltered at noon, frozen in the night.
Fresh air? What is it, in the name of life?
Cuddling babies? You might trample on them!
Or they’ll die from cold and rotten hygiene.
If they survive, they’ll be eaten afresh.
At such tender months! Oh all the Gods!!!
Can’t even tell of my nightmare
The entire human race, any one care?!
I live in terror and suffering my whole life
Just for their pleasure = a bloody bite!
Enduring truck with hamping stand
To wherever to be teared open from limbe to limb,
Or to hang on one leg on the ceiling!
And to have your throat slit like a worst criminal.
Gut and blood spilling all over
Amid crying, begging and agonizing scream(s)!
How can anyone enjoy such slight?
Have they all been dumb, deaf and blind?
Since when [have] humans become so cruel,
Losing all their loving kind nature?
They kick, stab, slice and torture
Oh the pain is beyond endure!
I cry for help! …is some one there?!...
How come only blood, blood, and blood everywhere
Within this cramp dark horror-filled walls.
There is no one but axes and shadows.
Shadows that are mighty, Axes that are sharp.
I am terrified, I am small, trembling, helpless.
Oh! If you don’t know if there is hell
Come and see, right here, nowhere else!
Dear Human friends, how can this be?
Why, why, why must you eat me?
Imagine it’s you.
Imagine it’ humanity!