{"id":21094,"date":"2015-05-15T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21094"},"modified":"2015-05-15T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:31:02","slug":"desolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/desolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Desolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have we heard humans say<br \/>\nAnimals don&#8217;t feel a loss no way<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t have feelings<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t have a soul<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s strangely naive<br \/>\nWhy some don&#8217;t believe<\/p>\n<p>Look at this infant<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s mother lies dead<br \/>\nSpark out on the ground<br \/>\nAnd we are led<br \/>\nTo realise straight a way<br \/>\nThat baby cares<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s mother lying there<br \/>\nSaying it&#8217;s prayers<\/p>\n<p>Clearly it&#8217;s woeful<br \/>\nThat we must say.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s clutching it&#8217;s dead mother<br \/>\nGrieving away<\/p>\n<p>Sorrow and sadness<br \/>\nHopelessness too<br \/>\nThey have opened a grave<br \/>\nAnd the little soul true<\/p>\n<p>To life lies accompanying<br \/>\nHer<br \/>\nmother for she<br \/>\nIs dead to the world<br \/>\nThat much we can see<\/p>\n<p>But this sweet little monkey<br \/>\nJust wants to be there<br \/>\nWants to die with her<br \/>\nYou can feel, it&#8217;s despair<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s burden it&#8217;s willing to sacrifice<br \/>\nNow<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s showing compassion<br \/>\nWe all can see how<\/p>\n<p>Despite being filled in<br \/>\nStill the baby holds<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s mother it will Not let go<br \/>\nIn the folds<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clearly unhappy<br \/>\nDowntrodden and sad<br \/>\nIt would rather die with her<br \/>\nNo matter how bad<\/p>\n<p>Heart broken so soulful<br \/>\nLying beside<br \/>\nClearly remorseful<br \/>\nIt can&#8217;t be denied<\/p>\n<p>Protesting by being<br \/>\nAll seeing with fear<br \/>\nWounded and wild eyed<br \/>\nWe so feel it&#8217;s so clear<\/p>\n<p>Those who would say<br \/>\nThat they have no soul<br \/>\nThat they have no feeling<br \/>\nKnow not of the role<\/p>\n<p>That animals play<br \/>\nIn each other&#8217;s life<br \/>\nWhat bliss really they<br \/>\nTake on and the strife<\/p>\n<p>Of losing ones mother<br \/>\nIs abundantly clear<br \/>\nThey would stay with their mother<br \/>\nAnd die too sweet dear<\/p>\n<p>Clutching her loving her<br \/>\nFeeling her she<br \/>\nCannot go away<br \/>\nAnd leave them to be<\/p>\n<p>Alone in this dark world<br \/>\nWhere humans believe<br \/>\nThat they are all soulless<br \/>\nAnd Unable to grieve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have we heard humans say Animals don&#8217;t feel a loss no way They don&#8217;t have feelings They don&#8217;t have a soul It&#8217;s strangely naive Why some don&#8217;t believe Look at this infant It&#8217;s mother lies dead Spark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/desolation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeys-and-primates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21097,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21094\/revisions\/21097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}