The Takers
In the dark twisted woods, mostly hidden from view,
Live the creatures that we call the takers, it’s true.
The takers all take, as their name would imply,
If they had half a chance they would take you and I.
They take babies from mums; they take brothers and sons,
They take daughters and sisters and put them in buns.
A young taker was saddened by such selfish deeds,
So she asked adult takers just what was the need.
She walked up to a man who was chomping away,
And she said just what she’d always wanted to say.
“Excuse me?” The girl said, with a smile on her face,
“Do we need to kill creatures to put on our plates?”
“We’ve got plenty of food and we wouldn’t cause harm,”
“We don’t need to hurt fellow creatures like this one.”
“No no no!” He replied “You just don’t understand,”
“We’re the takers who take, and we take what we can.”
But the girl wasn’t fooled by the taker’s reply,
She would ask other people, she needed to try.
The next taker took creatures from far, faraway,
And he kept them in cages, alone and afraid.
“Excuse me…” Said the girl, “But these creatures aren’t
ours.”
“Why do we choose to keep some of them behind bars?”
“We don’t need to do that. Can’t we leave them alone?”
“Why would we lock them up far away from their home?”
“No no no” He replied, “You just don’t understand”
“We’re the takers who take, and we take what we can.”
But the girl wasn’t fooled by the taker’s reply,
She would ask other people, she needed to try.
So she spoke to a woman, who used creatures’ skins,
As shoes, belts, coats, hats, scarves and various things.
“Excuse me?” Said the girl, standing on tippy-toes,
“Why on Earth would we make living beings into clothes?”
“We’ve got hundreds of things we could use just as well,
“I don’t think that it’s right to put creatures through
hell.”
“No no no!” She replied “You just don’t understand”
“We’re the takers who take and we take what we can”
But the girl wasn’t fooled by the taker’s reply.
She would ask yet more people, she needed to try.
Next she spoke to a man with a science-y mind,
He did tests on small creatures to help his own kind.
“Excuse me?” Said the girl, “This makes no sense to me…”
“It’s not right to hurt others to help you and me.”
“If we’re really so smart, we would find better ways.”
“To help takers and creatures without causing pain.”
“No no no!” He replied “You just don’t understand”
“We’re the takers who take and we take what we can”
“We’re the takers who take and we take what we can”
The girl still wasn’t fooled by these taker’s replies.
She would ask her own mother, she needed to try.
So she made her way home, feeling angry and glum,
She stormed into the cave and she said to her mum.
“Do you think that it’s right, when we don’t have the need…”
“… To use creatures at all just to satisfy greed!?”
“I can’t see an
excuse, I can’t see how it’s fair.”
“It’s not right to use creatures at all.” She declared.
“No no no.” Her mum said “You just don’t understand.”
“We’re the takers who…” “STOP!” Came the young girl’s
demand.
“I have spoken to others who say just the same,”
So she sat with her mum and she tried to explain.
Several minutes had passed while the girl made her case,
Then her mother had tears rolling right down her face.
“I am so proud of you and your heart is so pure.”
“We won’t take from the creatures at all anymore.”
Meanwhile other takers were thinking things through,
Was their taking of creatures the right thing to do?
The first man who was chomping on flesh and on bones,
And the woman who used creature’s skins as her own.
The man who kept creatures in cages for zoos,
And the science-y man began wondering too.
“We’re the takers who take, but we’ve taken too much”
“With our self-centred ways we’ve begun to lose touch.”
So they set loose the creatures and marched out to find,
The young taker who’d helped them to open their minds.
Knock, knock, knock came the sound on the young takers door,
It surprised her to see the takers from before.
“Little girl you were right, now we all understand.”
“It’s not right to use creatures just ‘cause we all can.”
“They have rights of their own and deserve to be free.”
“Not one creature exists just to serve you and me.”
So the girl and the takers decided that day,
To stand up for the creatures in every way.
They’d adopt homeless creatures and live cruelty-free,
And they’d educate others, just like you and me.
When they’d talk to new takers they’d start with the phrase,
“We were takers who took but now things need to change.”
I'm gonna let the dust settle on this for a few days because that's always a good thing to do (though time is running short and I need to have something to show). I'm going to assume this is how it's going to play out though so that I can start dividing parts of the story into the 32 pages that I need to fill up. Once that's done I can start some productive storyboarding and then some actual final images! Hooray! In the meantime I suppose I'll finish my character designs up.
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