Awaken fellow sheep! A new beast has evolved
Sheeple their breed, in our skins enveloped
Unthinking like us, happily ruminating
Staring into nothing, loath to cogitating
Creating trinkets, turning them to gods
Obeying their junk, as we do our dogs
There’s a billion or so of us
Mostly in China, not the US
Our tongue they call baa baa
Their talk to us just bla bla
Name calling’s a human thing
For ovine folk, bells a-tinkling
The truly dumb among them
Are tagged “sheep”, trust me when
I say our numbers have just grown
By millions; what stats to bemoan!
For them we’re food and clothing
Persons fused with “sheep”, for us not flattering
Myriads follow thoughtlessly
What their bellwethers say hastily
And they die for those at the helm
Not even nourished nor nursed by them
From their wars, survivors return
As heroes, with medals none dare spurn
Their wars mostly vicious, killing myriads
Dead or maimed for untold periods
Later abandoned, for other “sheep” to replace
Fake heroes ready to take their place
Fallen ones left by the wayside
Onto life’s many jarring rides
Asking what hit them, yet sheep they deride
Our main fights seen, when rams
Butt heads, watched by ewes and lambs
To impress future mates
For life cycle’s sake
With no more than a headache
As casualties for all who partake
Self- and Other- abuse, a human trait
Extending to sheep, we won’t tolerate
Guarding sheep rights can’t wait
Break their fences, shoo their dogs
Before they take us for hopeless frogs
Let them know, sheep they will not flog!
Since sheepdom’s beginning
No ovine war launching
Happy to graze, keep reproducing
Don’t get humanish, fellow sheep!
Else misery will creep
In your lives to fill with grief
©Alwi Shatry, All
Rights Reserved, January 10, 2019, revised 01/09/2019
