When Animals Talk

When animals talk

they speak with their eyes and their hearts,

their bodies and their tails.

"I love you."

"Thank you for choosing me,

and for bringing me

to the river, the lake, the ocean,the forest."

"Please remove my leash,

and trust me.

Don't you know

I'd never run away from you?"

"Why don't you hear me?

I am pawing at your chest,

not to annoy you,

but to tell you something bad

is growing inside you.

It's why I look so sad sometimes.

And yet you cannot hear me."

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And now Pig is speaking: 

"Why is my life spent only in this cage 

barely bigger than my body?

Though I have never known it,

within my genetic memory,

there are fields of clover

to roll in,

a blue sky, sunshine

and No Roof."

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"In my memory," speaks up Giraffe,

"lies an African velde,

succulent tall delicious branches,

and something known as Freedom.

But here I am, enclosed,

my baby behind a barrier,

as if Two-Leggeds can rear her

better than I."

"In all of our dreams,"

(they chorus together)

"there are wide open spaces

and we run freely and joyously

beneath the sky.

It lies within our hearts by day,

we dream of it by night."

posted late for Helen's cool invitation at Real Toads to Talk to the Animals. 
Which I do a lot of, in my world!