Arched balcony windows
\nThe red sun exposed
\nBobbies in luminous jackets
\nThey posed
\nA miserable countenance
\nThis time I thought
\nCajoled and harried us
\nWe just felt caught
\nUp in their stress levels
\nConstantly they
\nMoved us all on
\nAnd upset the day<\/p>\n
The barriers strung down the street
\nMade it hard
\nBut we made a noise
\nWe kept on our guard
\nWatching them freezing
\nStomping their feet
\nThey were not very happy
\nOn yesterday’s beat
\nOur combined breath rose
\nUp into the sky
\nWe chanted for hours
\nTill our poor throats
\nFelt dry
\nThe embassy staff
\nMust have felt all this woe
\nDirected at them
\nThrough the day
\nIt did grow<\/p>\n
There were many hundreds
\nExcited to be
\nShoulder to shoulder
\nAll ready to see
\nWe all felt the need
\nThe callousness they
\nThe Japanese fisherman
\nHow they display
\nSuch real inclemency
\nImpassively so
\nThey have no pity
\nAnd, does it show
\nThey have a spitefulness
\nAll to their own
\nThe killing of Dolphins
\nIs worse than we’ve known
\nAnd it’s all down to greed
\nAnd profit for they
\nAre the great Nemesis
\nOut in the bay<\/p>\n
Condoning this action
\nAs the Japanese
\nAppear to be doing
\nWith resultant ease
\nNo matter how we chant
\nNo matter they still
\nKill their 23,000 or so
\nAnd they fill
\nTheir guts with the
\nSweet Minamata
\nVile swill
\nAnd some they will
\nsell as slaves
\nAs most of us know
\nKidnapping babies
\nFor some Aqua show
\nKilling their mothers
\nIn front of them, they
\nAre sent back to the sea
\nTo die painfully<\/p>\n
So many people from around this world
\nNow feel the great agony
\nNo one does shield
\nThe pitiless souls
\nFrom this vindictive sin
\nThey are grudgeful
\nAnd malevolent
\nInside their skin
\nSomething quite rotten
\nShameful and queer
\nWeird to the extreme
\nDrawing the fear
\nAnd the emotion
\nOut of us all
\nWho come to make our point
\nWith our backs to the wall<\/p>\n
We feel the honour
\nThe courtesy there
\nAnd the admiration
\nNothing can compare
\nTo all of us believers
\nWho stand in the cold
\nThe humiliation
\nIn it we are rolled
\nTheir complete disdainfulness
\nMakes us not feel
\nThat we should now boycott Japan
\nNot conceal our feelings
\nGo after them
\nAnd their desire
\nTo slaughter the dolphins
\nHow can we admire
\nThe Taiji fishermen
\nThe Taiji mayor
\nAnd their tradition
\nWhen they are just not aware<\/p>\n
Of how much and how incensed
\nSo many are
\nAt their modus operandi
\nNow working to scar
\nThe wild life so precious
\nLoved by us all
\nWe all come together
\nOur protest our call
\nOur collective affirmations
\nOur hearts and our souls
\nWarm with emotion
\nEach taking on roles<\/p>\n
Yesterday’s honourable protest
\nJust grew
\nWe came from all over
\nTill our fingers turned blue
\nWith red paint denoting
\nThe blood and despair
\nThe evil the terror
\nWe could all share
\nImagining the agony
\nThe pithing rods stuck
\nInto our families spines
\nHearing them suck
\nInto their being the last throes
\nOf breath
\nThe lack of true consciousness
\nAnd the agonised death<\/p>\n
Unprincipled man unkind
\nKnavish arrant
\nReally insidious
\nWe witness each pant
\nWe watch the blood leaking
\nAs they hammer the peg
\nKnow they bleed internally
\nTheir sweet eyes beg
\nEach of us here today
\nHoping that we
\nCan save them
\nCan help them
\nCan, honestly see
\nJapan isn’t listening
\nPerhaps cannot hear
\nHere hard hearted men of the sea
\nDo spread fear
\nAll over the planet
\nWith their most wicked crime
\nTheir Debauched and depraved
\nWay of now killing time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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