WELCOME TO ELMER'S RAINBOW... dedicated to the memory of a little black cat, Elmer, who shared my life for 15 wonderful years. Here's to you, little one....
"See our world through the eyes of the innocent"
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.
I am the voice of the voiceless:
Through me, the mute shall speak;
Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear
The cry of the wordless weak.
From lab, from cage, from kennel,
From slaughterhouses, comes the wail
Of my tortured kin who proclaim the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.
For love is the true religion,
And love is the law sublime;
And all that is wrought, where love is not
Will die with the touch of time.
Oh, shame on the mothers of mortals
Who have not stopped to teach
Of the sorrow that lies in an animal's eyes,
The sorrow that has no speech.
The same Power formed the sparrow
That fashioned man-the King;
The God of the whole gave a living soul
To furred and to feathered thing.
And I am my brother’s keeper,
And I will fight his fight;
And speak the word for beast and bird
Til the world shall set things right.
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
