{"id":11800,"date":"2013-10-15T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11800"},"modified":"2013-10-15T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T11:06:02","slug":"ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/ivory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory the spell is cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You look at me<br \/>\nwith consternation<br \/>\nsome of you now feel<br \/>\nit is wrong<br \/>\nwhat mankind has done<br \/>\nbut we knew all along<br \/>\nhow sick and savage<br \/>\nman is<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s nothing thats ever kind<br \/>\nhe is brutal<br \/>\nhe is horrific<br \/>\nand he has blown my mind<\/p>\n<p>Ivory my precious tusks<br \/>\nyou see are torn away<br \/>\nsawn off with a chain saw<br \/>\nit was done today<br \/>\none of your kind<br \/>\napproached me<br \/>\nwith this raging hot steel blade<br \/>\nand carved me like some<br \/>\nstaatue<br \/>\nand on the ground he laid<\/p>\n<p>me part of me by my side<br \/>\nsmiling as he went<br \/>\nabout his bloody butchery<br \/>\nas I lay feeling spent<br \/>\nin agony, but not only mine<br \/>\nbut for the love, I had<br \/>\nfor humanity, the depravity<br \/>\nI felt, oh its so sad<\/p>\n<p>what greed and utter selfishness<br \/>\ncan lead a man to do<br \/>\nto forfeit love and caring<br \/>\nand truth, compassion too<br \/>\ncan change a human soul<br \/>\ninto a creature from the dark<br \/>\nimpassioned just by money<br \/>\nkind of just walking in the park<\/p>\n<p>a chain saw just so matter<br \/>\nof fact, to him, and I<br \/>\nshould have charged him down<br \/>\nand killed him and watched<br \/>\nthat bastard die<br \/>\nbut in me, I was hopeful<br \/>\ntrusting, believing, he<br \/>\nwas a credible protagonist<br \/>\njust there to gaze at me<\/p>\n<p>clearly my judgement very poor<br \/>\nI erred on the bright side<br \/>\nand paid the price for ignorance<br \/>\nand now the downward slide<br \/>\ninto a state of confusion<br \/>\ncrestfallen by it all<br \/>\ncompletely disillusioned<br \/>\nand up against the wall<\/p>\n<p>that they built all around me<br \/>\nbefore they took me out<br \/>\nI had a strange foreboding<br \/>\nunclear that the rout<br \/>\nwould be so awful for me<br \/>\nwould thwart me and would be<br \/>\nI leave this world downhearted<br \/>\nin incredulity<\/p>\n<p>as for the sick assassin<br \/>\nhis countenance was one<br \/>\nof evil it is hard to ever<br \/>\nbelieve he was someone&#8217;s son<br \/>\na mother carried this fiend<br \/>\nfor 9 months, did create<br \/>\nshared her body with him<br \/>\nhe clearly couldn&#8217;t wait<\/p>\n<p>his mind warped by necessity<br \/>\nhis heart corrupted by<br \/>\nthe evil ways of money<br \/>\nand the darkness in his eye<\/p>\n<p>the road we walk is a long one<br \/>\nthe mind can change each mile<br \/>\nI die today in the squalor<br \/>\nits hard to reconcile<br \/>\nhow greed can cut into one&#8217;s core<br \/>\nas this has done abroad<br \/>\ncut down by a chain saw<br \/>\na kind of new age sword<\/p>\n<p>that rattles and dismantles<br \/>\ntwas fired into my bone<br \/>\nat that moment in my being<br \/>\nit was sad to be alone<br \/>\nconfronted by this maniac<br \/>\nthis excuse for a man I have to say<br \/>\nthe ivory when its made<br \/>\ninto something else the hoarders they will pay<\/p>\n<p>and know not why their lives<br \/>\nhave run the course that they have run<br \/>\nwhy the miasma struck them down<br \/>\nas it appears  now to have done<\/p>\n<p>for the spell is cast and forever<br \/>\nthose handling whatever<br \/>\nwill find their lives cut short<br \/>\nall blood lines it will sever<\/p>\n<p>depend on this remember this<br \/>\nmy ivory was mine<br \/>\nyou have made the market rich<br \/>\nbut I have set the sign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You look at me with consternation some of you now feel it is wrong what mankind has done but we knew all along how sick and savage man is there&#8217;s nothing thats ever kind he is brutal he is horrific &hellip; 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