{"id":29402,"date":"2016-09-13T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T08:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29402"},"modified":"2016-09-13T08:58:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T08:58:30","slug":"orphan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/orphan\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine losing all your family<br \/>\nAnd feeling completely lost<br \/>\nHelpless in a frightening world<br \/>\nLife had kind of tossed<br \/>\nYou into its great chasm<br \/>\nWithout the where for all<br \/>\nAnd all the alien<br \/>\n creatures<br \/>\nLive inside their wall<\/p>\n<p>You are in the forest<br \/>\nYour family has gone away<br \/>\nNobody to love you<br \/>\nNobody to lay<br \/>\nBeside or on<br \/>\nNo comforts<br \/>\nNo where to get food<br \/>\nAching and now breaking<br \/>\nan alien solitude<\/p>\n<p>PAtience is warm and tender<br \/>\nClearly a caring soul<br \/>\nHe looks at her<br \/>\nAnd clearly trusts<br \/>\nAnd she respects her role<br \/>\nTo act as his new mother<br \/>\nAnd guardian and to try<br \/>\nTo form that bond<br \/>\nHe is clearly fond<br \/>\nOf her and we see why<\/p>\n<p>Rehabilitation<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a rock for him to see<br \/>\nAlthough he is only little<br \/>\nHis great big eyes are key<br \/>\nHe assimilates behaviour<br \/>\nAnd is clearly hopeful she<br \/>\nIs his second mother<br \/>\nFor he needs her so to be<\/p>\n<p>He clearly can remember<br \/>\nLife has not been up to scratch<br \/>\nA lot of sadness came to be<br \/>\nTill someone did despatch<br \/>\nHim to a government compound<br \/>\nConfiscated he<br \/>\nNeeded to find a mother<br \/>\nOr a friend and urgently<\/p>\n<p>Lost that&#8217;s how he felt<br \/>\nBut in a human world where woe<br \/>\nAnd great machines were everywhere<br \/>\nhe wanted to go<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s as if he as an alien came<br \/>\nFrom very far away<br \/>\nAnd hope he could find friends to help him<br \/>\nPerhaps even to play<\/p>\n<p>The trees were high<br \/>\nThe forest dense<br \/>\nBut clearly it all made no sense<br \/>\nSo Patience was his only hope<br \/>\nHopeful she could also cope<br \/>\nAnd obviously really wanted to<br \/>\nLove him and hopeful she could do<\/p>\n<p>He fretted in his sleepy hours<br \/>\nOf his own family he<br \/>\nPossibly could remember<br \/>\nHow it used to be<br \/>\nBut now he had to give his trust<br \/>\nAnd with that trust he had to see<br \/>\nLearn of his surroundings<br \/>\nAnd really try to be<\/p>\n<p>Part of these new months ahead<br \/>\nPatience clearly was<br \/>\nPatient and so peaceful<br \/>\nIn her temperament because<br \/>\nShe understood and had empathy<br \/>\nFor her little orphan boy<br \/>\nWho if she bonded with him<br \/>\nBoth could share the joy<\/p>\n<p>The nurturing power of women<br \/>\nThe morality of choice<br \/>\nShe was like a forest goddess<br \/>\nWith a most divine quiet voice<br \/>\nAnd the little chimp felt happier<br \/>\nIn her arms where he<br \/>\nCould hear her warm heart beating<br \/>\nLike his did,and to free<br \/>\nHimself from tHose old memories<br \/>\nShe held him softly and he<br \/>\nWas full of admiration for her<br \/>\nWith just one look you could see<\/p>\n<p> in and frightening world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine losing all your family And feeling completely lost Helpless in a frightening world Life had kind of tossed You into its great chasm Without the where for all And all the alien creatures Live inside their wall You are &hellip; 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