Animal Testing Poem

Kelsey Wilder

 

Stuck

 

I am stuck in a cold metal cage

I don’t know why I deserve to be here

I was a cute little bunny hoping through a meadow

Now I’m here stuck in this dreary cage

 

Big hands the size of a tree grab me and hold me against my will

The only thing we can do is squeal

No one helps me so I have no choice

I have no control over what this man does to me

And I have no voice

With my eyes open forcefully wide

I have to stay there while they poke and pride

Liquid gets poured into my eyes

Then suddenly everything goes black as night….

 

All I hear is voices and fingers picking my up by the fur

I can’t see anything and I think I might throw up

My mind is racing as I hear the screams of other animals shrieking in my ear

I feel so helpless with nowhere to go from here

 

I wonder if there enduring what I just endured

Id have to say this is much obscured

The screams die down and I know what that means

The thing that happens next will happen to me

 

 

 

 

The fingers return and I try to scurry.

The man picks me up without any worry

I’m picked and pocked all over my body

I don’t think I can take this much longer

 

I get poked and injected and I know this is the end

I just wish this madness would end

Maybe one day people will understand

That I have feeling and a heart to

 

The last thing I see when I close my eyes…

 Are two scary ones looking back at me.

I hope that other animals don’t go through what I just did

This is all so morbid

 

Ive been burned, hurt and now killed

I don’t think this will ever yield

Now you’ve seen through my prospective

About the things that go undetected