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Aug 2014
What is it to be humane?
It is to have compassion or kindness,
It is to be generous or thoughtful.
Humans were made to love.
We were made to care,
Care for the creatures of the deep,
For the ones that roam the grasslands and jungles,
For the ones that soar across the sky
And for each other.
But through the years of being here,
On this planet
The planet we call earth.
We've lost our way.
We've been consumed by the evil.
We've traded our generosity for greed.
Our kindness for barbarity.
And we have stopped caring for those who need it most.
We have forgotten about each other.
We've turned our backs on one another.
We torture, ****, beat innocent animals.
We destroy their habitats,
To build more malls we won't use.
We over fish,
Just to throw away half a meal.
We cut down rainforests,
Just to make space for cattle
We are going to slaughter.
We test our products on animals
Who don't use them!
Wr start wars,
For land we don't need.
We start genocides,
Because of races or religions
We don't like.
We ****** if
Don't get what we want.
We beat and abuse our family members,
We steal and ****,
Because we feel like it.
We bring people down,
Because we can't stand ourselves
When will we open our eyes
And realise
What we have become?
What are we doing?
We need to stop.
We need to finish what we started.
Roxanne Seymour
Written by
Roxanne Seymour  SouthAfrica
(SouthAfrica)   
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