If only tears could change the world.

I see; the photos, the videos, the articles about you all, surviving; not living, just surviving, captured, held inside cold metal cages, chained out in the elements, forgotten or worse - held by heavy chains, rusty wire with barbs. The scars from neglect, abuse and torments covering your bodies and faces, the lack of affection, food and proper human caring reflected in your soulful eyes and my heart grows heavy, my eyes fill and overflow with the agony of it and the knowledge that despite how you're made to suffer, every day you wake, you are willing to forgive and to trust us again.

I feel your pain, loneliness and fear, I want to scream - for you. I want to raise my voice over the drone of daily life that makes it easy to push the truth of it all to the background and not think about it, to open the eyes of the self absorbed, slice open the bubbles of ignorance so many live in; are insulated by, kick down the walls of isolation that shield so many from the horrid truth about that cute little puppy they just spent $800.00 to purchase, the facts about what that angels brothers and sisters are enduring, hidden away from that brightly lit, immaculately clean pet store - reveal the bare, nasty truth of the abuse, neglect and tortures that take place every day, sometimes, just a few miles away or less from their own picturesque lives.

I want to free you; save you from from the heavy chains, the ties, the cages, that filthy crate and too small stall. I want to show you a different reality from that which you suffer at the hands of we - careless, selfish, ignorant human beings. I want to gentle you, calm your racing heart, caress you whispering softly that you will be fine and know - in my heart - that you will.

I hurt for you angel. I fear for you, I wish my tears and the millions shed for you every day by so many who feel the same way, could change your worlds right now - I wish they could make it stop NOW, so not another one of you would ever feel betrayed by those who are supposed to take care of and love you.

If only our tears could change the world....

I apologize angel, deeply, truly and sincerely from the bottom of my soul, for each day we cannot rescue all of you, for every moment you must suffer because the tears we shed, are not enough to make it stop, for those of you who will die today, because tears are not enough to save you.

For all of this and so much more, I am sorry.