03/15/2023
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The unfixable horse
Born of human greed
Into suffering
To line the pockets of breeders
Willing to go to any length
To satisfy the desire for flash, for showring glory
Eager trainers flock with their wealthy clients
Looking to make a name for themselves on the back of the walking dead
A malformed body
Genetically designed monster built for Extravagant movement
The amateur owner will never be able to ride
His brain and body disconnected, unsuitable for life
No idyllic roaming in fields
With mother and herd
But chain and whip
And isolation, to keep a gleaming coat, smooth muzzle, whisker free
And a dead heart, kept tightly wrapped under the control of man
Breathless cantering
Foam dripping
Teeth grinding
Hooves pounding
Ribbons won
Proud as a peacock, smiling photos on a dead eyed horse
Fed like a king
Kept like a slave
Then come the joint injections
Then come the sidenreins
Then come foreign clinicians,
Who, in a thick accent, demand
More forward
More leg
Stronger hand
Until there is no more to give
The unfixable horse stands up
A formidable sight
The proud men scatter
No match for his power, even in his disunity
And he is retired to pasture
No peaceful grazing, meandering and pleasant life awaits him
Deathly afraid of other horses, of being outside the confines of his stall
He struggles
Unprepared for real life
Unable to read social cues and expression
Fighting
And injuries
And pain is what meets him
His war torn body like a rock,
Stock still, he quivers in the corner
While other horses quietly chew their hay
Every day since he was born there has been pain
The unfixable horse was born into misery
Failed by humans at every turn
A mark of the cruelty and fragility of human ego
Born wrong, trained wrong, and dumped
Like an old car with the window shattered on the side of the highway,
Not running again, and nobody is coming back
The release of death his only hope for relief
He does not fear the end, because he was born dead
