{"id":24219,"date":"2015-10-28T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24219"},"modified":"2015-10-28T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:56:35","slug":"prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prisoners, we create so many<br \/>\nFrom animals who once were wild<br \/>\nThe elephants chained to a wall<br \/>\nFully grown but as a child<br \/>\nLooking sad and so frustrated<br \/>\nBeaten when it suits until<br \/>\nOnce they were happy in their jungle<br \/>\nNow they pray for their last pill<\/p>\n<p>A pill thats sends them to the death camps<br \/>\nFar away from all this pain<br \/>\nThe animals are far From joyous<br \/>\nAnd they never will come back again<\/p>\n<p>Behind our bars they know they are captive<br \/>\nTheir freedom stolen long ago<br \/>\nSplit up from their precious families<br \/>\nThe great apes mirror all we know<br \/>\nNo trees to climb just laboratories<br \/>\nWhere surgeons work to delve and see<br \/>\nWhat affects do the chemical have<br \/>\nDo they burn how can they be<\/p>\n<p>When they scream and scream they do<br \/>\nNobody cares no not a jolt<br \/>\nThis is what life is<br \/>\nTo be an animal<br \/>\nIn the human world,their result<\/p>\n<p>Animals we are experiments<br \/>\nCircus performers prisoners too<br \/>\nA natural life is not our calling<br \/>\nThat is not what we should do<\/p>\n<p>To live here we must work the journey<br \/>\nStrive to thrive in agony<br \/>\nHours of passage for live exports<br \/>\nReally does it have to be<br \/>\nJust that awful<br \/>\nAnd the slaughterhouses now<br \/>\nHave no respect for our intention<br \/>\nWhy would we want to be a cow<\/p>\n<p>A bull in Spain another torture<br \/>\nBred to kill within the ring<br \/>\nTortured daily before it happens<br \/>\nAnd To Always be the underling<br \/>\nStabbed and poked destroyed in moments<br \/>\nFighting back an option we<br \/>\nWill nit get unless we are lucky<br \/>\nAnd only then temporarily<\/p>\n<p>To see that dressed up man of colours<br \/>\nLying prostrate in<br \/>\nthe dust<br \/>\nGives the dying bull an exit<br \/>\nOne last diabolical thrust<\/p>\n<p>Prisoners they create so many<br \/>\nAnimals who once were wild<br \/>\nUntil their habitats were stolen<br \/>\nAnd their families were defiled<br \/>\nThe majestic Orca&#8217;s thrown in tanks<br \/>\nSwimming daily in their blood<br \/>\nChoking on each others passion<br \/>\nDrowning in each others flood<\/p>\n<p>And then of course the elegant dolphin<br \/>\nFinds herself out in Taiji<br \/>\nIn a chaos of true thunder<br \/>\nWhere their pipes should never be<br \/>\nDriven hard like wolves a running<br \/>\nTrapped and beaten hour on hour<br \/>\nThe Japanese those vilest monsters<br \/>\nSo exert their awful power<\/p>\n<p>The sea runs red with blood and sinew<br \/>\nMore screams more pain its everywhere<br \/>\nIn this world of cruelty<br \/>\nOf trepidation and despair<br \/>\nFeeling sad and so frustrated<br \/>\nBeaten when its suits until<br \/>\nOnce so happy in the ocean<br \/>\nNow we pray for our last pill<\/p>\n<p>Pith us fast we beg you do it<br \/>\nLet our sad eyes close and soon<br \/>\nWhere our gods were they have left us<br \/>\nIn a world beyond the moon<br \/>\nHow we cry of this indulgence<br \/>\nHow we cry to see our worth<br \/>\nAnimals are purely slaves<br \/>\nTo every bugger on this earth<\/p>\n<p>P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisoners, we create so many From animals who once were wild The elephants chained to a wall Fully grown but as a child Looking sad and so frustrated Beaten when it suits until Once they were happy in their jungle &hellip; 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