{"id":28502,"date":"2016-07-06T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28502"},"modified":"2016-07-06T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T09:12:30","slug":"yupi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/yupi\/","title":{"rendered":"YUPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into this world<br \/>\nThe miraculous way<br \/>\nI slipped out of my  mother<br \/>\nAnd into that day<br \/>\nThe sky was as blue<br \/>\nAs it ever could be<br \/>\nAnd the snow was so white<br \/>\nI could hardly see<\/p>\n<p>It was cold it&#8217;s was fresh<br \/>\nIt was where Inshould be<br \/>\nIn the land of the glaciers<br \/>\nClose to the sea<br \/>\nMY mother was beautiful<br \/>\nAnd so was I<br \/>\nPlaced in a spot<br \/>\nTo just quietly lie<\/p>\n<p>Bears and your essence<br \/>\nWas clearly to be<br \/>\nIn a world with few people<br \/>\nStaring at thee<br \/>\nIn a wild wilderness<br \/>\nWhere freedom did rule<br \/>\nShe was so big<br \/>\nAnd I was so small<\/p>\n<p>It was a privilege<br \/>\nJust to be there<br \/>\nBut tragedy struck<br \/>\nFor there in our lair<br \/>\nCame hunters the vile brood<br \/>\nAnd that great bond they broke<br \/>\nSlaughtered my mother<br \/>\nJust at a stroke <\/p>\n<p>I remember her growl<br \/>\nAnd the ice was All red<br \/>\nFrom her blood loss<br \/>\nAlas my mother was dead<br \/>\nI had lost my parent<br \/>\nOn that awful day<br \/>\nWhen the darkness descended<br \/>\nAnd took me away<\/p>\n<p>MOrelia Zoo was the new home for me<br \/>\nDesigned for a grizzly that I could see<br \/>\nA heavily chlorinated swamp and all bare<br \/>\nAnd the sun was so hot just to be there<br \/>\nBaking and taking my body to task<br \/>\nThe thick shield of blubber I began to ask<br \/>\nWhy would they put me here it shouldn&#8217;t be<br \/>\nI need the cold climes and the colder sea<\/p>\n<p>But this is my fate twenty years<br \/>\nOf this pain<br \/>\nLeft in the dark my life so in vain<br \/>\nBrutally hot the violence became<br \/>\nPart of my life and my end game<br \/>\nI remember my mothers leyes closing that day<br \/>\nI remember the hunters who stole me away<br \/>\nI recall that their stink was fetid and vile<br \/>\nWhich I never have been able to in fact reconcile<\/p>\n<p>And now I am old I am wasting away<br \/>\nThey promised to move me that&#8217;s what they say<br \/>\nBut with so much violence outside the zoo<br \/>\nNobody comes here really that&#8217;s true<br \/>\nAnd the heat is oppressive it&#8217;s awful to be<br \/>\nRoasting on this concrete this hell hole for me<br \/>\nIf there was a god surely he would try<br \/>\nAnd get me away from here before I die<\/p>\n<p>Why did they shoot her and just leave her there<br \/>\nWhy take me away<br \/>\nA young polar bear<br \/>\nIt made no sense such a futile embrace<br \/>\nMy broken heart and their lack of grace<br \/>\nAggressive and ignorant that was each day<br \/>\nShooting and killing and making us pay<br \/>\nSo  they could feel powerful<br \/>\nAnd think they were strong<br \/>\nBut reality proves to me<br \/>\nThey all  were wrong<\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s hot unbearably so<br \/>\nAnd for me there is no where<br \/>\nThat I can go<br \/>\nNo shade at all and water that smells<br \/>\nThey never change it<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one of the hells<br \/>\nOf being around human beings<br \/>\nFor they<br \/>\nHave no idea of the natural way<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about profit and thats every zoo<br \/>\nHow can a polar bear really live through<br \/>\nSuch evil and horror<br \/>\nAnd malevolent thought<br \/>\nThey lack all conscience<br \/>\nTheir care factor nought<\/p>\n<p>Will somebody help me<br \/>\nGet out of this hole<br \/>\n20 long years for a tired wretched soul<br \/>\nWho prays to the heavens most every day<br \/>\nThat death with his sickle<br \/>\nWill cart me away<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping my eyes will not open<br \/>\nTomorrow<br \/>\nThe zoo will not care<br \/>\nNo cause for sorrow<br \/>\nI will be dead and suffering no more<br \/>\nWhich the rest of the world<br \/>\nWill just ignore<\/p>\n<p>I am just a bear a prisoner who<br \/>\nBecame a victim of the hunters who do<br \/>\nMurder and maim and they do it for fun<br \/>\nI was moved from the ice<br \/>\nTo live under the sun<br \/>\nTo boil and to roast and to suffer such pain<br \/>\nAfter I am gone please don&#8217;t do this again<\/p>\n<p>ZOOS Are an anathema they insult humanity<br \/>\nAnd they have not the slightest idea about<br \/>\nPlacement and creation.<\/p>\n<p>They are corporates who care about the pursuit of profit<br \/>\nAt all cost. We are the victims of this evil.<\/p>\n<p>From the grave we beg you to realise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into this world The miraculous way I slipped out of my mother And into that day The sky was as blue As it ever could be And the snow was so white I could hardly see It was cold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/yupi\/\">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":[173,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","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=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28508,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions\/28508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}