Poetry – Not Opposed to Guns and Hunting

Not Opposed to Guns and Hunting

Recently,

A strange thing came over me.

I realized I was no longer opposed

To guns and hunting, I suppose.

The idea of it gave me a thrill –

To go in for the messy kill!

I’d developed an itchy finger

And a mind that would linger

On scenes of blood and gore

As bodies smashed on to the floor.

I could picture in my head

The bullet striking something dead!

Was I sick? Was I ill?

It was indeed a bitter pill;

To think that I was smitten

And rabid – I’d been bitten!

But I would hunt the trophy hunters

The poachers and dog fight punters

The badger baiters and cruel whalers

The seal clubbers and fur balers

That is how I’d get my fun

Nailing them! Every one!

I know I’m sick. I should get a cure.

But they deserve it – that’s for sure!

Opher 28.12.2018


No – it’s alright! I haven’t gone nuts. I haven’t become a right-wing gun-totin’ nut. I haven’t joined the NRA.

It was just a passing whimsy.

I just hate all those evil bastards so much – the ones out there pumping machine gun bullets into rhinos and elephants, the ones out hunting all those beautiful creatures – lions, tigers and gorillas, the ones who are so cruel that they love to see animals ripping each other apart.

I reckon they all need shooting!

At least I can dream.

Poetry – You Set Me Free

You Set Me Free

You opened up the rainforest

And set me free.

You sent in the loggers

And released me.

Your hunters and merchants

Took me to distant lands

Your wet markets and butchers

Have blood on their hands.

Now I’m in your blood

Breeding rapidly.

I bet you are glad

You set me free.

Opher – 13.9.2020

Covid-19 – another pandemic set loose by our own stupidity.

We continue to open up the inaccessible regions.

We hunt and catch the poor creatures who live there.

We put them in cages and sell them in markets.

We ship them around the world in terrible conditions, all crammed together, starving, thirsty, terrified.

We keep them in insanitary conditions.

We take them to market and slaughter them.

Their blood is on our hands.

The wet markets release virus after virus – HIV, SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, Avian Flu. There has been a stream of them.

Are we going to all this terrible trade to continue?

I think it’s as bad as slavery!

How long is it before a virus is released that will wipe us all out?