And it’s a shame how we have pushed animals that are used to breathing in fresh air to the confines of a six by seven hall and call it a shelter. It’s a shame how we have tortured them enough to force them inside four walls. It’s a shame how we have made them feel unwanted even on the small concrete floors that we provided them with. It’s a shame that they feel safer in the dark and dingy rooms than on the green and plush grass. It’s a shame how we break their bones just coz they howled in the middle of the night. It’s a shame how we cut their limbs just coz they stole a loaf to feed their pups. You tie them up and piss on them just coz they can’t protest. It’s a shame! –
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Every single time I step into a shelter i can feel their eyes on me, as if they’re questioning me “Why? How’d you feel if you’re confined like hostages inside four walls with concrete floors and no sun? How’d you react if you feel those concrete walls closing in each day? How’d you live with the fear of those closing walls crushing you to dust someday? How would you? How can you displace us to build your home at my place, the place that i once used to call home? How can you take away my rights? How can you? How could you? How could you do this us? How could you make us suffer so much for absolutely no fault of ours?” And the only thing I wish is to be able to say “SORRY”.
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Inside the shelter, more than the darkness and the filth, it’s the eeriness and the agony that you can smell in the air that is more frightening. Those uncouth cells screaming thousands of stories, of pain, of hurt and of death. It’s like your mind starts running in flashbacks and it’s so distressing your whole body starts shaking. You feel sick and unsteady and in that moment you just know, somehow, that you ain’t good enough, that you ain’t doing good enough, that you are still not enough.
And after everything, the only solution to all this agony is KINDNESS. please be kind in your countenance and conduct, specially towards the ones who can’t express their pain in words that’s understandable for us.
Last modified: December 27, 2019
