We’re stuck in tracks, printed long before us the impression of progress keep us stray, in the darkness Blinded, deaf, so calmly, we suffocate. the way out is dreadful and thorny. Branches cut my face, and hold me back I loose my step, tripping on the roots Its hard to get past it, Its hard to get past myself It would seem Im lost so far, without goal. BUT IN THE DISTANCE I CAN HEAR THE FIRE First of all I have to batter the walls built inside my mind Because they chain me down the most Open my eyes and belive that there is a light Stand up on my feet and breathe in new fresh air Begin to take steps armed with new energy and belief. Trust in myself and in my passion a fire in my heart. I can make a crown of thornes, be satisfied and pretend that theres no one bleeding but no longer can I stay comfortable fooled learn, admit and react. Someday I want to see the clear sky This place has taught me how to dream. I want to see thrones crumbling into dust. This place has forced me to imagine. statues tumbled on the ground This place has taught me how to dream flags ripped into rags, ruins of the “glory” But this place wont last forever i want to see flames burning it all down This lethargy has lasted way too long we were blindfolded and lost in time fires are ignited and spreading out They cant all be stepped on or put out, the fires. the despair is vanished in flames I can hear it the inextinguishable fire.

We have been at war with the other creatures of this earth ever since the first human hunter set forth with spear into the primeval forest. Human imperialism has everywhere enslaved, oppressed, murdered, and mutilated the animal peoples. All around us lie the slave camps we have built for our fellow creatures, factory farms and laboratories, Dachaus and Buchenwalds for the conquered species. We slaughter animals for our food, force them to perform silly trics for our entertainment and delectation, gun them down and stick hooks in them in the name of sport. We have torn up the wild places where once they made their homes. Speciesism is more deeply entrenched within us even than sexism, and that is deep enough. The most calamitious and fragile of all creatures is man, and yet the most arrogant… Is it possible to imagine anything so ridiculous as that this pitiful, miserable creature, who is not even master of himself, should call itself master and lord of the universe? The begininning of Genesis says that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all the creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty, that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse, over the pig and the bird. Yes, the right to kill an animal is the only thing that all mankind can agree upon, even during the bloodiest of wars. The domestication of women followed the initiations of animal keeping, and it was then that men began to control womens reproductive capacity, enforcing chastity and sexual repression. A greedy monster devouring with a thousand mouths! The spirit of Capitalism made flesh! In the made-for-TV culture the only addmitted genocide is now part of history. “It’s comforting – it’s over”. But aren’t the Aushcwitzes of today animal farms, transports, laboratories and slaughter houses that are so carefuly hidden from view? Where the most defenseless of the world’s victims are merely seen as material. Nowhere is patriarchy’s iron fist as naked as in the opression of animals, which serves as the model and training ground for all other forms of opression. Sight, sound and smell. Death on monumental scale. No one wants to hear it no one wants to see. All unseen and unheeded, this horrible crime is buried out of sight. Wiped out of memory. …thou shalt not be a perpetrator; thou shalt not be a victim; thou shalt not be bystander. …”If learned throughout society, those three commandments could help people see that choices we make determine the extent to which we are perpetrators, victims, or bystanders in a society, that has long been carrying out a holocaust against animals and other beings and ecosystems while declining to recognize it as a holocaust.”…”the point of understanding the Holocaust in Europe is to prevent and halt other ones, not to remain narrowly focused on that particular one, traumatic though it was.”