Slaughtering

The Ocean was vibrant with innocent souls
All swimming merrily
Each in their roles
Mothers with babies fathers with sons
Uncles and Aunties
And grand parents
Who heard the guns
the cacophony the melee
The chaos the scream
As boats began circling
Team after team

It was the grind stop
Faroes on fire
Driven like sardines
Into what was dire
trap of inclusion
The whole family tree
Excited and frightened and
Stressed tragically

Into the water the Faroese came
Still in their clothes
They just have no shame
Weapons a flashing knives on Them they
Cut them to pieces
We watched them slay

One after another
Tears everywhere
The scourge and the fear mongers
And the despair
Opportunism incincerity
Blood guts and sinew
And venality

Slashing and crashing
Loyalty they
Will never leave family
Will not swim away
Carnage the sea turning crimson
The cries
The babies so frightened
Under the skies

They were all happy families
Top down they had joy
Then the hunters were on them
And they did employ
Savagery, villainy distractions galore
All of these angels engrossed in a war
The recriminations were felt everywhere
Blood sweat and tears
And a choking no care
For drowning wee babies trying to fly
Wanting a cuddle from mother
And why
Were the brutes slashing wildly blood everywhere
Staining their bodies no one aware
Of the thrill of life they had they wanted
To be killed dead
Torn out of the water losing their head

Great crimson froth balls floated away
The clamour of dying
The slashing delay
Such a lambasting
Their innocence cost
Hisses and hoots taunting and jeer
Crush and contempt for every soul here
The great unworthy
The petty the mean
Destroying a family tree
That once had been

Wonderfully perfect
Schooling the souls
Loving each other
Until the vile trolls
Entered the water
Privileged they
Scuttled our being
And sent us away

They showed us no duty
No Bowden desire
What ought to be done
Just masses of ire
Unseemly unjustified
Imposters they
Came with their smiles
And just blew us away

So much amiss
Something rotten here
In the sparkling waters
Exceptionally clear
Collective wrongheadedness
Immoral as hell
So much injustice
You can hear tell
One after another
The death bell did sound
Unwarranted torture
Flying around

250 pilot whales gone
35 white sided dolphins upon
And the avengers in sight
With their knives out and ready
To admonish our light
It was so unfitting
An unpardonable too
When you don’t play the game
Persecuting us too
Just how sadistic your rogue element were
A bunch of assassins
Was what did occur

The Faroes the cliff tops
The seabirds around
My godmother perished
She had been crowned
Queen of us all
And she died trying to save
One of the babies
Stolen by a knave
Who took her to shore
And stuck his knife in an eye
And it gushed blood and snot
And before we did die
We cried to the heavens Why are faroese
so bloody wicked
Not hearing our plea’s

Callous barbarity
Ruffians who
Use their outrageousness
Baleful and blue
Forbidding and ugly
Yes every one
Snarling and snapping
Here under the sun

Dragged up on the quayside
Blood everywhere
By now we were all dead
No need for air
Plenty of anger and antipathy
These men are detestable
And abhorrently
Threw us about fir the sea gulls to eat
Torn into pieces our dead bits of meat

Under a grey sky
An audacious breeze
Insulted our aura
Some men on their knees
Slicing off blubber
As brazen as they
Indolent butchers
All cutting away

The whole village sharing
The triumph of course
A day to remember
The ego’s in force
All self important
Narcissistic too
Swank strut and shooff
At what you did do