Little Earthlings By Alejandro Ayala Polanco Ilustrations by Loreto Matthews
Little Earthlings
by Alejandro Ayala Polanco
(c) 2008, Alejandro Ayala Polanco ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author. Ilustrations: Loreto Matthews Translated by: Valentina Vergara Campos 2
Little Earthlings
by Alejandro Ayala Polanco
This poem was read to children who attended the first children’s environmental education fair in Santiago: “Econiño”, on June, 2008.
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Little Earthlings I
Children who step on my skin who drink from my rivers who freshen on my breeze I have come to tell you a story About life. The story about the pig, the goat, the cow, the horse, the spider, the fish, the sparrow, the monkey and the story about you too.
Animal sons inhabitants of the warm earth, which is my skin.
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Little Earthlings II
I’ve come to tell you that a love bond unite us
that as much as your mother loves you, mother cow loves her children mother sheep loves her children.
that we all love life that the giraffe loves her life in the jungle that the starfish loves her life on the rock that the bee loves her life on the flowers
In my eyes, they are all the same.
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Little Earthlings III Their suffering is my suffering. Their enslavement is my enslavement. They have taken my wings. They have taken my jungle. They have taken our mother. I used to go from tree to tree. I used to bathe in the river. Now I can no longer move. A chain fastens my feet. They have taken everything. They have taken everything. 6
Little Earthlings IV
My heart of rain feels pain. For I no longer see you on the treetops. For I no longer hear you barking. For I don’t understand your imprisionment.
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Little Earthlings V
My heart of storm feels pain. He wasn’t born to fill your medicine cabinet. He wasn’t born to fill your hunger. He wasn’t born to be your toy.
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Little Earthlings VI My heart of river and sea feels pain. You take my life to eat my body. You cut my neck to make a barbeque. You celebrate and I lose it all. You take my milk and honey, You pull me apart from my children. You celebrate and I lose it all.
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Little Earthlings VII
Children, children who step on my skin, I have come to tell you that we all love life, that there is a love bond that unite us. Protect your life and respect the life of your brothers. In my eyes, we are all the same.
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Alejandro Ayala Polanco Author and a recognized animal rights speaker from Chile, has proposed a transformation approach of awareness in the boarding and understanding of veganism. Creator of Homo Vegetus, in 2002, the “Fonda Vegana del Huaso Vegetariano�, in 2006, and Vegan Seeds stories, in 2008. 11
Little Earthlings By Alejandro Ayala Polanco
Ilustrations by Loreto Matthews
Homo Vegetus Little earthlings is a poem that seeks to inspire respect for the planet, and for all the sentient beings that live in it. Contact: supervegano@gmail.com For more information please visit: semillasveganas.blogspot.com www.homovegetus.cl