01/09/2025
Rescue does indeed take a long time to explain. And unless you are slap bang in the middle of it it's unfathomable. The hours spent. The tears shed. The good days, the bad days and everything in between mess with your mind. Are you doing the right thing for a horse? Could you do better? Do you know when to take a break? Can you bear to see one more abandoned, neglected horse? A horse that has been discarded, let down by the very people who should have kept them safe.
Rescue is a tough path to walk and we all do the best we can. Sometimes it's enough. Sometimes it's not. But at least we can say we tried.
Thank you Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue, INC for all your organization does for horses.
It takes a long time to explain rescue
To explain to folks just how much is involved, why and how we do what we do. . .
It breaks us down,
It builds us up
It destroys our faith in man kind,
it restores our faith in man kind
We are sure we can't do this one more day;
We are sure we could never rest a night if we ever gave up
We see horses at rock bottom,
only to see them at their best in the blink of an eye
We drag these shattered bags of bones covered with lice in, throw aways, not as well attended to as a bag of trash might be. . .
To watch the process,
the progress,
the fear recede,
the confusion clear,
the awakening of a soul that has went to dark place and just turned off. . .
to survive
Perhaps they just wait, I really believe they do.
They wait and hope for a day it will turn around,
and they remember a day with a brush, a treat, a pat and a full belly.
To show they survive.
It is a Rush, a decent purpose to life. . . to be the change for the voiceless at such a time as this when too few will speak up, take action, too many defend the evils happening the equine world.
Too many willing to defend their actions;
Too few willing to call out what is wrong
The change we know can be worked in the lives of a horse saved from a horrible fate is A reason to listen to the lies we are told by the people who withhold food, water or any type of care just long enough to get the horse in the trailer and get them out. . .
To see people in the equine community defend horrors that blow one's mind, to see people able to help, to give, to change, just turn the other way, to filter through a stack of unsuitable adopters to find the one gem in the pile to be the end of the rescue story for one Lucky horse. . .
To love a horse you've saved, a horse that would not be there in front of you had you not answered a very clear call to action when most would not,
To love a horse, save a horse and let the horse go when an
adopter comes and not hold on in order
TO save Another, another, another
To give you, the supporter, the whole story, not shield you from anything, to let you see it as we do, even if through a screen. . .to know the good, the bad and the why. . .
To say Thank you for being one of the few who stand with the horses. . .
Like I said. . .
It takes a long time to explain rescue
