I, Don Quixote

have empathy

I stood in the dirt

next to

my frail horse

My saddle spurs and bit

I placed in and are inside the

Museum of Human Cruelty

©️ July 2025 Much Love, Deb Poems

☝🏼https://www.equusfoundation.org/action-centers/action-center-profile-page.php?id=1733

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocinante

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/don-quixote-horse

https://hsperson.com/highly-sensitive-horses-and-

https://www.equinebehaviorist.ca/post/do-horses-like-being-ridden

https://www.idausa.org/campaign/sustainable-activism/latest-news/ban-deadly-horse-carriages-in-your-state/#:~:text=Chicago%2C%20Illinois%3B%20Salt%20Lake%20City,help%2C%20we%20can%20do%20more!

https://www.peta.org/features/horse-drawn-carriage-bans/

https://theirturn.net/2015/04/20/horse-drawn-carriage-ban-San-Juan

https://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/how-does-peta-feel-about-horseback-riding/

https://www.peta.org/category/main-issues/animals-in-entertainment/horse-racing/

and

Stop using sensitive horses for ‘crowd control ’.
Here’s why 👇🏼

https://qr.ae/pAVfxO

☝🏼https://www.livingthehorse.com/ththtt-exclusive-access-application☝🏼

❤️
Thank you for caring with the empathy and self awareness it takes to finally understand that the fear of and denial of death – and the subsequent and natural feelings of feeling helpless and vulnerable – and in the repressing of these common feelings – are openly seen and witnessed in the abusive controlling of, exploiting of, the dominating

over helpless and vulnerable animals, like horses

Fill your name into the blank, “I, ____________________ rise up for horses”.

Much love, Poet Deb