(TR) In memory of Jonah

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I leave it up to John to decide on this message, Turkey comes under both Asia

and Europe. The song was written by Maria Daines who also contributed for

the elephant polo cause. Jonah as many of you will know died in Turkey after

being dumped in a rubbish van.

 

Dear all,

 

I had to do something for Jonah so I've written some words for him and

narrated them on the link below. I hope this message reaches those in Turkey

who denied this sweet dog a second chance. Feel free to share with friends

of animals.

 

Love from Maria xx

 

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* Jonah*

 

*A short tragic life lived in pain*

*Not pain that leads to something better*

*To recovery, or a quiet peaceful home*

*Safe with those you know*

*Where you are wanted for your happy presence*

*Treasured for your soft ears*

*And trusting eyes*

*Welcomed for your gentle spirit*

*Called upon when you stray too far*

*Missed when you are out of sight*

*Or a little too far from loving arms*

*Arms that would have cradled you*

*As you slept, dreaming of love...*

*Now, dear Jonah, you slumber safe*

*In the eternal shelter of a million caring hearts*

*For not all human beings are cruel*

*The ones who let you down*

*The callous brutes who could not see*

*How much you mattered*

*Those that trespassed through your right to life*

*Those that dragged barriers across your final hope*

*Drawing curtains of ignorance around your sorrow*

*So your suffering might be alone*

*They, and only they, each and every one that stole your escape*

*Keeping you far from rescue*

*They may waken each morning*

*With the knowledge that they matter least.*

*For their aging broken souls carry boulders of emptiness*

*Their shallow agenda will weaken and be rendered useless*

*Their eyes shall dim with cowardice*

*And their hollow, worthless shame*

*Shall become a prison for their lack of dignity.*

*Yet you, dear creature of another world*

*Resting soundly now, your body healed of ache and pain*

*Renewed and repaired, you are at one with the Rainbow*

*Aloof from this planet where a species of savages roams*

*You shall be remembered always, far from this dumb world*

*You will shine brightly as a butterfly in moonlight*

*You are amongst the friends who gathered you to their hearts*

*Friends who tried to pull you closer through an unfathomable distance*

*Friends who wished you an almighty strength*

*To fight an interminable struggle of indifference*

*They will never know the power, Jonah*

*Or the pleasure of man's beautiful best friend*

*A friend who would be devoted to their very being*

*Loyal and enchanting, a comrade in compassionate war*

*The antidote to human angst and a miracle beyond all reason*

*Each heart encased in fur shall live amongst the brave forever more.*

*Those who let you down*

*And those who were not content with living their own wretched life*

*Those who blocked your path to recovery simply because they could*

*Those so ignorant that they possess nothing of any value*

*Their empathy is shipwrecked somewhere in a shrunken sea*

*They are already forgotten...*

*Whilst you remain a rock of hope and a beacon of our need*

*A symbol of all that we may overcome*

*You were not ruined, they could not break you*

*For you are what they can never be.*

*You live inside those that care for life *

*You belong to everyone that ever cared.*

*And through your suffering this night shall never end*

*For wherever the voiceless guardians unite*

*Wherever they stand tall and turn against the cruelty*

*Wherever a plea is heard*

*There will be no silence. No apathy *

*No challenge worthy if not borne of love*

*Your life and death will never be over.*

*Your brief moment in this bleak space and time*

*Will not be in vain.*

*You are our memory*

*We promise.*

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*Maria Daines*

*November 2008*

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www.maria-daines.com

www.myspace.com/mariadaines

www.myspace.com/justiceforregina

www.myspace.com/musicunitedforanimals

 

 

'Songs for the voiceless, music for the soul'