{"id":37370,"date":"2018-07-16T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37370"},"modified":"2018-07-16T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:59:49","slug":"hopes-and-dreams-and-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/07\/hopes-and-dreams-and-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes and dreams and genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below the lowest of poverty lines<br \/>\nAnd families all destroyed by war<br \/>\nThe monetary system dismantled<br \/>\nA country that lost all its law<br \/>\nGenocide ravaged the whole population<br \/>\nAt least twenty five per cent killed<br \/>\nPol Pot saw to complete ethnic cleansing<br \/>\nWith the  innocent blood that he spilled<\/p>\n<p>Hopelessness social exclusion<br \/>\nPenniless now everywhere<br \/>\nChurch mice seen as rich<br \/>\nIn this hell of a place<br \/>\nInsufficiency and total despair<br \/>\nA Corruption infected society<br \/>\nPeople existing thats all<br \/>\nTotal destruction of the family unit<br \/>\nAnd no one to help when they call<\/p>\n<p>No welfare to speak of<br \/>\nNo social services<br \/>\nLost souls and very few schools<br \/>\nA fifth are illiterate<br \/>\nAnd there is no work<br \/>\nAnd the future ahead just appals<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia  is on the breadline<br \/>\nIts meagreness lost in a world<br \/>\nOf displacement and a complete loss of consciousness<br \/>\nForty million people are hurled<br \/>\nIn this maelstrom of wavering loyalty<br \/>\nOf corruption and venality<br \/>\nAbjectness and villianous spivvery<br \/>\nNobody really is free<\/p>\n<p>Everyone there is a victim<br \/>\nAnd the children ofcourse tend to be<br \/>\nChattels now up for the selling<br \/>\nTo help make ends meet tragically<br \/>\nChildren for sale<br \/>\nIn the clubs in the bars<br \/>\nVillages now everywhere<br \/>\nThey are pimping their children<br \/>\nFor those vital funds<br \/>\nTo lift themselves out of despair<\/p>\n<p>The unspotted unblemished children<br \/>\nAre stolen as slaves and are sold<br \/>\nThe iniquitous pimping aggressively so<br \/>\nAnd children now not very old<br \/>\nAre expected to work at pleasuring men<br \/>\nWhose profilgacy is so low<br \/>\nWhose degeneracy and whose improbity<br \/>\nIs open and always on show<\/p>\n<p>There are now so few of the innocent<br \/>\nFor virgins are sold off and they<br \/>\nAre consigned to short lives<br \/>\nIn the hell holes of vipers<br \/>\nWho flagrantly earn every day<br \/>\nMothers who relent to the pressure<br \/>\nWhose need is the price that is paid<br \/>\nCannot forgive  themselves for what they did<br \/>\nIn the streets too  where many have strayed<\/p>\n<p>Hopes and dreams are the meaningful marrow<br \/>\nStarvation is rife everywhere<br \/>\nThe child seems a way out of darkness<br \/>\nTo look and to then be aware<br \/>\nOf the vastness of what is dishonour<br \/>\nOf the scornful and unflattering way<br \/>\nThat children are expected to give of themselves<br \/>\nIn what Is the most terrible way <\/p>\n<p>Its a mercilessness that surrounds us<br \/>\nAnd relentless remorseless ordeal<br \/>\nNo where compassion can get a foot hold<br \/>\nNobody allowed to feel<br \/>\nThe blackguards and rogues are now everywhere<br \/>\nWith few angel spirits around<br \/>\nEveryones at it the police and officials<br \/>\nIn sex and disease they are drowned<\/p>\n<p>Look into the eyes of the children<br \/>\nBeautiful skin big round eyes<br \/>\nThey rummage on soil heaps<br \/>\nFor what they can find<br \/>\nAnd sell but it is  no surprise<br \/>\nNobody really has money<br \/>\nIts constantly chasing ones tail<br \/>\nThey have the desire to be earning<br \/>\nBut inevitably they do all fail<\/p>\n<p>Child sex and then onto brothels<br \/>\nSold over the border some are<br \/>\nTo thailand to vietnam and China<br \/>\nWhere self  hate and suicide star<br \/>\nIn the greatest number of jane does<br \/>\nThat end up as murders perhaps<br \/>\nThis isnt life this terrible hell<br \/>\nYet its all really kept underwraps<\/p>\n<p>Debauched and corrupted for a pittance<br \/>\nObscenities rule everywhere<br \/>\nThe children grow up very fast in this place<br \/>\nTheir defilement they all seem to share<br \/>\nWhorehouses shacks by the roadside<br \/>\nBestial and so depraved<br \/>\nGang rapes and so much impurity here<br \/>\nAnd nobody now can be saved<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has been abandoned<br \/>\nLeft to just wallow in sin<br \/>\nGanja scag black tar and candy<br \/>\nReally the kids  cannot win<br \/>\nThey will die before thirty most of them<br \/>\nIt is very much hell on this earth<br \/>\nTotal degeneracy on such a scale<br \/>\nThat one wonders why they still give birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below the lowest of poverty lines And families all destroyed by war The monetary system dismantled A country that lost 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