Poem: You never thought you'd die in the sky

 

This type of poetry is called “Animal Activist Poetry.” I speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

You never thought you’d die in the sky

When it showered her beams through your watery home.

When it made you warm and grew your little ones.

You never thought you’d die in the sky. How was that even possible?

Many times you jumped out of the water to catch a bug the sky would light blue into your eyes. 

A special place you loved that sky and the way it cleared a path to the sun.

You never thought you’d die in the sky

You loved the sky the sky loved you

you lived in the water it lived above the land

miles and miles from where you are now.

You never thought you die in the sky

Until they came with nets and boats that screamed in your ears till you went deaf.

When you were sleeping

When you were sleeping

and up into that net and into the air and slowly they strangled your body flipping and lurching in an epileptic fit a gruesome dance to put yourself back to where you can breathe.

Can’t breathe can’t breathe suffocation.

Who knew it took so long. 

And when a they threw you in a galley of ice with thousands of your friends, the last thing you saw out of the one eye that hadn’t burst was the sky.

You see little fish you died in the sky

and you’ll never know why.

But I give it to you straight. Some person decided that they wanted to take your flesh and burn it on a hot pan and then put into their mouths so they could say ummmm and then take a crap later that night.

I’m sorry dear fish you had to die in the sky, For a mouth a stomach and a couple of chews. You were much more then that and I honor you.