MEETING DEATH

Soft, yellow, chick weightless in hand, nose in fluffy feathers smelling new life.  Chirp, “I love you” from tiny beak. 

     

   Noted:

“one day bird meets axe.” 

 

Shaking head affirmative, blindly validating, soon forgotten.  Now food, water, shelter.  Phoenix grew large, impressive.  Eggs presently. 

 

“As long as she lays we keep her.” 

 

It happened, no eggs.  Parents in hushed tones,

 

         “it’s part of life”

 

“valuable lesson”

 

“things die for others to live.”

 

Contract came due, head severed, blood, reality, death.  Devastated, lesson learned.  Family cannibalized corpse.  I cried in room.

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[KAREN]

Very sad, but so true! you expressed your feelings so well!

[Looouise]

This is really simple, and yet it conveys what's going on very well. I like the use of the short sentences, and the descriptive words. I also like how you've written this is a small narrative kind of way. It's different.

[Brittany W]

Very sad but very true, i disagree with the slaughter of animals but yet i eat them, i hope to be vegetarian in the future, it truly is a sad think, great work.

[emmajoy]

Here in the country poultry, pigs, sheep, etc. are kept for slaughter, the kindest, most Christian people do the killing or regularly drive off to the abattoir or have vehicles come from it .. it's how it is.

' “it’s part of life” ~ “valuable lesson” ~ “things die for others to live.” '

I hate it. I love animals, have seen probably thousands born and near cry every time, was a vegetarian for nine years, still eat more vegs than flesh .. but ..

Your poem is poignant, near fearful, thought-provoking, finely written and if it came into being cos of the first thought you had, well, then, it's extraordinarly moving and more.

[roarke]

These are difficult contradictions to comes to grip with. I eat chicken but I couldn't slaughter one.

The contracts come due for all of us one day or another. The cycle of life indeed.

[Jim]

Wonderfully sad poem. I love the detail, especially "Chirp, 'I love you' from tiny beak."

"Contract came do" should be "due"