AN ODE TO THE COW: a sonnet

AN ODE TO THE COW: a sonnet


You silent creature sent by god to earth
To feed your milk to man in his childhood,
And thereby give him nature’s joy and mirth,
Denied to him by drying motherhood!

O cow, you feed the child of him who kills
Because he finds that your meat is tasty.
Through you his stomach throughout life he fills,
And subjects you to cruelty nasty!

O dumb beast, you are so non-violent
That to harm you is sin against the God.
To kill one who is so benevolent,
Is truly, on mother nature, a fraud.

Why can’t man let other animals live?
Why can’t he, to animals, his love give?


* Written initially as entry no. 492357 in the book FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL, "FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL" . Posted as an independent item on 26 January 2008.


M C Gupta
4 March 2007