Today, I give you another poignant poem from the pen of HW activist Ronda Cooperstein. Thank you, Ronda. (If you’d like to share a personal story on our site about your life with horses, please reach out: patrickjbattuello@gmail.com.)
“Mammal to Mammal”
Even though they want to erase you, they cannot.
Your life is not a pencil mark, a footprint in sand.
Your eyes will always find me
Where your slight shadow fell
On stable straw
Backed against the wall
Before they snatched you away.
Your mother
Stomped her hooves
Shook her head
Neighed all through the night
With the knife in her heart.
It’s not easy to imagine how deep the cuts,
Each season when they trucked her little ones away.
Little colts and foals come like us, so innocently
Into the world of pastures, rivers and windy days.
But their ways are not our ways.
They are not ours to take and sell,
and not a gift to give.
They want to graze and run
To love and live.
Prisoners of human supremacist hate,
We promise you, we will change your fate.
Love,
Another Mammal
Thank you Ronda, so beautiful,so dead on RIGHT.
Ronda, your voice for the horses is appreciated beyond words. Thank you!
Love this poem both style and content. Agree, thank you for your voice and vision.