{"id":26225,"date":"2016-02-04T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26225"},"modified":"2016-02-05T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T08:48:21","slug":"gin-and-tonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/gin-and-tonics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gin and tonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To ever come to terms with this<br \/>\nThe reaction that she got<br \/>\nFrom her mother from all people<br \/>\nEffusiveness it was not<br \/>\nI am here with someone<br \/>\n&#8220;Its gin and tonic time<br \/>\nThere is no way. I can pick you up<br \/>\nYou will just have to climb&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back out of your misery<br \/>\nAnd sort your self out gal<br \/>\nThat is when the penny dropped<br \/>\nHer mother was no pal<br \/>\nThis was mother daughter stuff<br \/>\nShe alone in all the world<br \/>\nUnctuously proclaiming<br \/>\nIn hell she had been hurled<\/p>\n<p>A great big place of darkness<br \/>\nA dead baby in her womb<br \/>\nAn overwhelming tragedy<br \/>\nIn all this doom and gloom<br \/>\nAnd a kind of awful stupor<br \/>\nThe disinterest of it all<br \/>\nImpassive and cold hearted<br \/>\nAnd unconscious to the call<\/p>\n<p>Blood stained were her garments<br \/>\nLeft to realise<br \/>\nNobody at this moment<br \/>\nthere to sympathise<br \/>\nA mother is in person<br \/>\nWhere intimacy  does go<br \/>\nHere in all its glory<br \/>\nThe fall out now would grow<\/p>\n<p>How she had been grieving<br \/>\nTearstained all the while<br \/>\nWhilst the mother knocked back gin and tonics<br \/>\nThats the kind of  style<br \/>\nSo She had to wait for her husband<br \/>\nWho would get no time  to spare<br \/>\nReally now at her breaking point<br \/>\nWith nobody to share<\/p>\n<p>Any of the happenings<br \/>\nThe evil sick refrain<br \/>\nUnwelcome and unwanted<br \/>\nClearly, somewhat insane<br \/>\nAnd the mother to this day<br \/>\nHas just forgotten the event<br \/>\nWhilst the baby girl<br \/>\nWas never born<br \/>\nShe came and then she went<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime there were<br \/>\nMediums who partook of her plight<br \/>\nThey spoke of long red haired<br \/>\nYoung girl<br \/>\nCarrying the light<br \/>\nAnd subsequently aiding<br \/>\nThe baby brother who<br \/>\nHad a disorderly sleep programme<br \/>\nBut there was no way that she knew<\/p>\n<p>29 years with the pain which is resident in fact<br \/>\nThe anger and the wrathfulness<br \/>\nAll of that still intact<br \/>\nPiqued and so embittered<br \/>\nForbidden let us say<br \/>\nA bone to pick a crow to pluck<br \/>\nAnd provocation along the way<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amber&#8221; was the lost child<br \/>\nWho drew the musical score<br \/>\nWho influenced her mother<br \/>\nWho its said she did adore<br \/>\nAnd the mother really to this day<br \/>\nHas not come to make it up<br \/>\nShe has seemingly forgotten<br \/>\nBetween candlestick and cup<\/p>\n<p>Her tears would fill an idyll<br \/>\nHer heart was broken through<br \/>\nThe memories have been with her<br \/>\nAnd are always there it is true<br \/>\nPitiless ingratitude<br \/>\nApparently is there<br \/>\nReady to take on the world<br \/>\nPlunging it to despair<\/p>\n<p>The mother child relationship<br \/>\nWas simply blown away<br \/>\nNobody showed her any kindness<br \/>\nAnd there she had to stay<br \/>\nSuffering the humiliation<br \/>\nAnd her painful score<br \/>\nUnpretentious really sounding<br \/>\nThat another war<br \/>\nis just around the corner<br \/>\nAnd whats more<\/p>\n<p>A  Curse upon existence<br \/>\nA denunciation dares<br \/>\nA philanthropy of silence<br \/>\nAnd sheaths of foreign prayers<br \/>\nThe cynicism of it all<br \/>\nNobody to greet<br \/>\nAmber would have been 29<br \/>\nUp to now her world complete<\/p>\n<p>A women losing everything<br \/>\nThe child she carried, she<br \/>\nHad to take a real big hit<br \/>\nAnd suffer it instantly<br \/>\nLosing the potential<br \/>\nWhilst gathering a child<br \/>\nUp into  ones heart strings<br \/>\nLess it be defiled<\/p>\n<p>The mother went to Hell and back<br \/>\nAnd cannot shake this free<br \/>\nA man will do whatever<br \/>\nThe women though must<br \/>\nSee<br \/>\nit all through<br \/>\nto its bitter end<br \/>\nAnd clearly this she tried<br \/>\nShe never will forget her daughter<br \/>\nNo matter who denied<\/p>\n<p>One  year or so  later<br \/>\nAnother pregnancy<br \/>\nHer waters broken twice it appears<br \/>\nBut the first time no baby<br \/>\nThe terrible worry surfaced<br \/>\nAnd disturbed the husband so<br \/>\nBut despite the troublesome pregnancy<br \/>\nA child was born to glow<\/p>\n<p>To draw the eyes of many<br \/>\nA boy in high esteem<br \/>\nThe mother will not ever forget<br \/>\nThe daughter she would seem<br \/>\nAlready altogether clearly she was not<br \/>\nAnd it all got rather strained<br \/>\nAgain<br \/>\nWhich no body liked a lot<\/p>\n<p>What her mother did  the first time around<br \/>\nLeaves really many gaps<br \/>\nThe poxy gin and tonic excuse<br \/>\nIt was like a game of craps<br \/>\nAll the latent misery and solid<br \/>\nInfamy<br \/>\nLost in Such confusion<br \/>\nAnd what became a tragedy<\/p>\n<p>She told to me this story<br \/>\nWith red eyes and for me<br \/>\nI felt the enormous anguish<br \/>\nTrying to break free<br \/>\nBut solidly within her soul<br \/>\nLamenting to the sky<br \/>\nAmber she would cherish her<br \/>\nTill the day that she will die<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ever come to terms with this The reaction that she got From her mother from all people Effusiveness it was not I am here with someone &#8220;Its gin and tonic time There is no way. 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