{"id":20421,"date":"2015-03-24T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:26:06","slug":"driven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/driven\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by the gutless<br \/>\nThe arrogant brigade<br \/>\nTaking on the great god<br \/>\nWho eventually has paid<br \/>\nA price born out of torture<br \/>\nAnd violence and such pain<br \/>\nThe idiocy and stolidity<br \/>\nThe obsession and the strain<\/p>\n<p>These were the wildest giants<br \/>\nPlucked from tribal places<br \/>\nLiving where their gods had put them<br \/>\nRealness in their faces<br \/>\nStolen stripped of innocence<br \/>\nAnd thrown into a stockade<br \/>\nTied up chained bull hooked and pained<br \/>\nAnd injured with a blade<\/p>\n<p>Years and years of cruelty<br \/>\nBeing made to cart<br \/>\nPeople riding on their back<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s where it did start<br \/>\nA difference of opinion<br \/>\nA differing belief<br \/>\nUnwitting and unknowing<br \/>\nThe quackery of grief<\/p>\n<p>Loose thinking inexactness<br \/>\nDeception all the time<br \/>\nIntolerance and hatred<br \/>\nIt was such a crime<br \/>\nEvasive and irrational<br \/>\nA darkness all could see<br \/>\nAn untrustworthiness<br \/>\nAn indecision<br \/>\nA vile improbity<\/p>\n<p>Crowds in an enclosure<br \/>\nNoise and frustration reigns<br \/>\nDrumming chaos causing<br \/>\nPent up anger strains<br \/>\nMayhem there and panic<br \/>\nBlood vessels bursting high<br \/>\nThe elephants were angry<br \/>\nAnd, we all see why<br \/>\nMen thrown every which way<br \/>\nTossed like broken toys<br \/>\nFlailing arms and broken  legs<br \/>\nThey were the Ele  boys<\/p>\n<p>Trodden on and crushed and thrown<br \/>\nThese half chained creatures, they<br \/>\nFelt the mad confusion<br \/>\nThe delirium display<br \/>\nThe oddness the strange behaviour<br \/>\nThe bedlam all could feel<br \/>\nConfused deranged demented<br \/>\nPsychotic at such a deal<br \/>\nDefective and erratic<br \/>\nBearing down on those that fell<br \/>\nSmashing them along the ground<br \/>\nInto their long term hell<\/p>\n<p>Unhinged infuriated<br \/>\nTheir expectations high<br \/>\nMen were being crushed alive<br \/>\nAnd tossed into the sky<br \/>\nWomen in their sari&#8217;s ran<br \/>\nWith children at their side<br \/>\nCorybantic  frantic<br \/>\nMoronic on the slide<br \/>\nAn apocalypse of anger<br \/>\nThe writing on the wall<br \/>\nA calamity of chaos<br \/>\nMany men did fall<br \/>\nAnd were trodden on and broken<br \/>\nAnd all eternity<br \/>\nWould favour this emotion<br \/>\nWould herald each attempt<br \/>\nWould sweep them into Summer Land<br \/>\nAnd share the base contempt<br \/>\nThe unmeaningness and delirium<br \/>\nThe frenzy all could see<br \/>\nThe waffling raving gibbering mass<br \/>\nOf vile uncertainty<\/p>\n<p>We have to give due sympathy<br \/>\nTo the elephants they took<br \/>\nA hammering a battering<br \/>\nPlay it by the book<br \/>\nThey snapped for want of solitude<br \/>\nThey bust a gut in pain<br \/>\nTheir anger it was fiery<br \/>\nVivid and insane<br \/>\nThe drama the reluctance<br \/>\nTo cooperate and see<br \/>\nThe fractiousness<br \/>\nNot minded to any modesty<br \/>\nUncooperative and recalcitrant<br \/>\nBut still kicked mighty hard<br \/>\nWith a determination<br \/>\nTo really mark their card<\/p>\n<p>An obduracy and stubbornness<br \/>\nTo really make their point<br \/>\nDour and grim and persistent<br \/>\nThey would wreck the joint<br \/>\nThey would run and frighten<br \/>\nEverybody there<br \/>\nBeat down all the women and children<br \/>\nThe despair<br \/>\nwas powerful<br \/>\nAnd objectionable<br \/>\nAbuse the wrong was now<br \/>\nThey would be the catastrophe<br \/>\nAnd this my dears was how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by the gutless The arrogant brigade Taking on the great god Who eventually has paid A price born out of torture And violence and such pain The idiocy and stolidity The obsession and the strain These were the wildest &hellip; 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