Poem for the Present Generation of Vegan Activists Peacefully Intervening to Save Animals

I am here now

            for the young vegan activists saving animals from slaughter

I am here now

because a young human

interrupted my journey to the slaughtering,

hoisted me over their shoulders

and carried me towards animation.

I am here now

my eyes dilating fast

to take in this extension

to life — and the blood of my kin

is a river never divided.

I am here now

because an intervention

drew out the length of my days;

the things I have learnt we have taken —

we breathe the same air as our dead.

I am here now

because the young humans

are rising peacefully from their screens

to step into the killing zones,

to bend down and lift us back to the light.

            John Kinsella

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