China
A land of great mystery
A culture as old as the hills
a huge population
a vast demonstration
Of artistic worth
and of skills
But a people embracing
a number of myths
TCM gets in the way
Reality opens its market and we
See animals
having to pay
The past clearly demonstrates
the need for a cure
and though synthetic drugs
apparently lure
The West where we’re drowned
in them, the industry
The great Corporations
feed so closely
In China, tradition
imposes its worth
its radical purpose
is worked from the earth
From certain wild plants
and from berries and seeds
From animals, insects
and of course where
that leads
Is into a most murky world
actually
Where Black marketeers
and gangster types be
Gut wrenching fear mongers
assassins prepared
at the drop of a hat
to see nothing is spared
all manner of creatures
seem destined to be
murdered and made into pills
rapidly
a huge range of species
the blood and the gore
find themselves targets
now more and more
As China grows richer
Its people can buy
Into the market more
and can rely
on more than before
they have money to use
and that means more
animals they can abuse
Though protected by CITES
Money is power
and those without money
they soon know how
Take Pangolin scales
And, Tiger bones
The great Rhino horns
are setting the tones
these beasts are now
hunted and slaughtered
they say
for the market in China
grows bigger each day
Heartless individuals
as desperate as Hell
earn vast amounts
they are clearly paid well
For their ugly endeavours
and desperate deeds
all the while actually
planting the seeds
and more and more people
are willing to kill
risking so much
so they can fulfil
their sad little lives
their standards can be
Higher than many
in the family
Old men in China
whose sexual desires
are thwarted some what
by age, for their fires
may have diminished
their, sexual score
May not be as high
as maybe before
They will pay in pure gold
For the prize that they feel
A soup made from Tiger bones
it does appeal
The horn from the Rhino
though pure keratin
is sought after avidly
though its pure spin
and so it goes on
Many animals die
Endangered species
sought out
some high
on the hit list
all manner of creatures
alas
are slaughtered
and shipped
across borders
enmasse
Gun toting youngsters
around the Far East
Now kill on demand
For the great carnal feast
the quest to return
to the place of their birth
means they are now
willing to ransack the earth
Qi
Yin and Yang
the forces of life
Bear Bile
The Musk deer
Sea Horse
such strife
rains down
on the creatures
TCM does
re balance the spirits
the eternal buzz
Is China on trial
Hear their massive denial
On Endangered animals who
are getting the chop
and it just has to stop
For there may be a shop
near to You
selling these pills
and these potions
made out of the parts
of some soul
who was gunned down
or hacked up
and frozen and shipped
Yes bypassing Border Control
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