We Dominate

Conscious, awake, and aware of the world

Gazing in eyes just like mine

Life is sacred, no matter the form

Communion, creation, divine

So many degrees of separation

Between the slaughterhouse and the store

Ignorant of what we consume

Too ashamed to look at the source

Malicious mantra of might making

Right erodes our humanity

(The line's been drawn)

Fashionable furs, foie gras on a plate

Lays bare the absence of empathy

(The line's been drawn)

Our anthropocentric perspective

A tyrannical philosophy

(The line's been drawn)

We pretend that we're the most

Important to excuse atrocities

(The line's been drawn)

Just because we're dominant

Doesn't mean we should dominate

Just because we can destroy

Does not mean we should not create

Placing ourselves on a pedestal like we inherited the earth

We're tied to the same cycle of death and new birth

Bury my body so I may return to the land I love

Break down my body into the soil for green grass to grow out of

We come from the same place as all other life down here

Now that I've made the connection I have nothing else to fear

The flesh you grind between your teeth

The blood that falls on farmers' feet

A dagger drawn to kill the calf, drink the milk, don the skin

Hen debeaked and farmed for eggs

When she runs dry we eat her legs

A worm is a bird is a dog is a man

It's all the same

Organic cycle before life began

It's all the same, exactly the same lifeform

Bury my body so I may return to the land I love

Break down my body into the soil for green grass to grow out of

We come from the same place as all other life down here

Now that I've made the connection I have nothing else to fear