culture

The Faroes
Spain and Taiji
3 places far apart
But when I think about them
It truly breaks my heart

Their cultural sense
Is really what
What is it now they say
They have to kill
To entertain and to survive
Another day

Pilot Whales the bravest Bulls
And Dolphins victimized
The intensity you can feel it
And the resentment too
Its prized

Its about their own humanity
Can we begin to feel
What it is they are feeling
And what is its appeal

Its true time has moved on a lot
And what once might have been
An essential part of living then
Now appears obscene

To imagine that to slaughter
Animals as we do
To create in fact a blood bath
And continue to pursue

This rancour And this indignity
On a race so far apart
One destined to contact us with a force
That they impart

No enemy,but a heart force
The Bulls are bred to be
Strong and valiant in the ring
And to die it seems to me

In a futile show of inferiority
That is whats displayed
And a pre performance logic
Part of the stock in trade

Tortured truthfully woefully
Riled and angered by
A preliminary process
Which my dears is why

The matadors, their cuadrilla men
Carry on the grind
The punishment is awful
And this is underlined

The Bulls do not survive this
How can they its unfair
They are brutalised before the fight
Its really hard to bear

Its known as entertainment
A skilful lust for fire
Egotistical nonsense
Wrapped up in desire

In Taiji a whaling history
Its a drive in which a few
Boats go out and create mayhem
With sounds that clearly do

Frighten pods of innocent souls
And victims they become
They are slaughtered
There is no way back
Once they have heard the drum

Its an unfair fight its a tragic end
To a family group
Each would be friend
Their captors rather
Than attack and kill
But an injured friend
Means they never will

Leave their side
They will die where they
Are a sentient family
And have to pay

The Japanese they know the score
The dolphins heart is good and raw
Its loving they will never leave
A dying friend
For they believe

Such cowardice is beyond
their scope
And so they stay
they stay they hope

But there is no hope
For the Japanese are a harder race
They will always seize
The opportunity to kill
The sentient their blood to spill

In the Faroes an island people
Alienated by
Their position in the ocean
A community thats high

That sees the slaughter essential
To their existence there
The tradition and the culture
And the long months
Of despair

The pregnant women eat the mercury laden
Foods for they
Are incensed that any
foreigner
Would try to make them say

They were less a Faroe warrior
than their predecessors who
Lived on these barren islands
Many centuries and stayed true

To themselves
Whales were evidently
The food they all could eat
Its indignation
They take umbrage
Its a hatred
Its conceit

They all adopt this indignant roar
Of fury when we say
Slaughtering these animals
As you do is not okay

Its historic yes it possibly is historic
But today
Its abhorrent and its embittered
And its wrong
And to them we say

Go let off steam
Go blow your top
But by slaughtering those souls you
bring your own demise much closer
And that my friends is true

Be benevolent and more merciful
For these whales are sick and they
Truthfully will live shorter lives
So polluted and they pay

The price for our vile negligence
Our dumping practice, they
Are dying they are riddled
With the pollutants every way

For them is one of agony
But what you people do
Is take on all that agony
And share it yes share it too

To Spain Taiji and The Faroes
3 significant places where
Blood baths happen regularly
And they lead to world despair

So its malignancy not tradition
Its torture all the way
Brutality we love it
We make those poor souls pay

Spain is passed its sell by date
Whatever people say
This medieval torture
Has to go away

Its evil its so pitiless
The bulls have little chance
The unfeeling the intolerance
The no quarter given dance

Of death
It screams remorselessly
Of criminality
Of murder in the public eye
And complete insanity

To all of you who read this
In the Faroes and in Taiji
In Spain the pain is evident
On the land and in the sea
The agony its growing
The pollution is as well
And what we knew as heaven on earth
We now know as pure HELL

So carry on your killing
Your culture it will send
Your children to the dark abyss
Much sooner

Me just a friend

Who can see lets say reality
In the winter of my life
I turned vegan 47 years ago
When I gave up all that strife

The cetaceans how they struggle
Through the mercury laden waves
The PCB’s and radiation
At this rate might be our graves

Not just the whales and dolphins
But whole cities everywhere
The planet is now reeling
From the absolute despair