A Race For Survival

• Lauren Cassar, Grade 11, Bethany College
• Poetry
• 2012

Excellence Award in the 'Legendary 2012' competition

A human and an animal are one and just the same,
Both are just a creature without sharing a name,
Yet the race against each other is quite an uneven game,
As we use our unfair advantage and put our race to shame.

Can a Rabbit defend itself as it looks down the barrel of a gun?
Can you imagine car lights and a deer completely stunned?
The cruelty against animals has only just begun,
And it's up to us to stop it before the race is won.

The danger we bring to an animal we must condemn,
Each and every animal is one and just the same,
We harm ourselves by harming them,
We are the flower but they are the stem.