{"id":38627,"date":"2018-09-17T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=38627"},"modified":"2018-09-17T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:31:02","slug":"the-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"The pigs and their perceived lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judgment of perceived love<br \/>\nThe  question of the day<br \/>\nDo you live in a story book<br \/>\nIs that romance any way<\/p>\n<p>These pigs drowned when the water<br \/>\nCame<br \/>\nNo one around to see<br \/>\nNo one around to give them love<br \/>\nAnd they all drowned tragically<\/p>\n<p>How many of  us have drowned like this<br \/>\nHave been left all  alone<br \/>\nNobody to really love us<br \/>\nOf all the souls we have known<\/p>\n<p>We dreamed of our perfect partner<br \/>\nThe story book the prince<br \/>\nThe one who would sweep us off our feet<br \/>\nAnd our words would never mince<\/p>\n<p>These pigs were so unfortunate<br \/>\nTheir incarnation brought them to<br \/>\nA farmer who was feeding them<br \/>\nThats what farmers do<\/p>\n<p>But he was never loving them<br \/>\nFor him his safety was<br \/>\nMore important than anything else<br \/>\nAnd that my friends was because<\/p>\n<p>He loved himself especially<br \/>\nMore than anyone<br \/>\nThe pigs were All insured<br \/>\nThat much he had done<\/p>\n<p>As to their life their worth<br \/>\nTo him purely financial let me say<br \/>\nHe knew the flood was coming<br \/>\nBut he just drove away<\/p>\n<p>The pigs believed that he loved them<br \/>\nHe fed them kind of, he<br \/>\nGave them the bare minimum<br \/>\nHe always had the key<\/p>\n<p>He kept it in his pocket<br \/>\nAnd They were locked away<br \/>\nSo even when the waters came<br \/>\nThey  were locked in and did pay<\/p>\n<p>For allowing him to control their lives<br \/>\nPerhaps a karmic debt<br \/>\nThat went way back through ancestry<br \/>\nTheir termination set<\/p>\n<p>How  many of us live our lives<br \/>\nIn a similar way<br \/>\nWe hold out for the handsome prince<br \/>\nWho will  whisk us clean away<\/p>\n<p>To that faery castle<br \/>\nsomewhere in the sky<br \/>\nTelling us they love us<br \/>\nOur story book is why<\/p>\n<p>So many of us find a love<br \/>\nWe tell them when we do<br \/>\nBut they shun us for another<br \/>\nAnd then remain a!one all through<\/p>\n<p>I so feel for these pigs I do<br \/>\nWhen the flood came they were locked<br \/>\nIn a barn lost to the world<br \/>\nExisting all half cocked<\/p>\n<p>The farmer only valued them<br \/>\nAnd insured them for that price<br \/>\nBut when the floods came<br \/>\nHe was gone<br \/>\nHe had rolled the dice<\/p>\n<p>His life was the important one<br \/>\nHe never even thought<br \/>\nAbout how the pigs would suffer<br \/>\nHe wasnt overwrought<\/p>\n<p>Each one of them so wanted<br \/>\nTo live to love to be<br \/>\nPigs in their true meaning of the word<br \/>\nBut we can see<\/p>\n<p>The outcome they all perished<br \/>\nAnd many of  us too<br \/>\nPerish in the lives we lead<br \/>\nWhen our own flood comes through<\/p>\n<p>The story book partner that we chose<br \/>\nLike the farmer lets us down<br \/>\nAnd we are left to face the music<br \/>\nLike some circus clown<\/p>\n<p>The farmer where&#8217;s the farmer<br \/>\nIs the question we must ask<br \/>\nAll those poor pigs perished<br \/>\nAnd do so they cant bask<\/p>\n<p>Out in the woods surrounding<br \/>\nThe prison where they are kept<br \/>\nThey cant use inclination<br \/>\nAnd the water must have  swept<\/p>\n<p>Down the ruddy mountainside<br \/>\nInto their locked stall<br \/>\nAnd they were carried away<br \/>\nAnd drowned a lesson for us all<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy has happened<br \/>\nAnd flesh eaters will say<br \/>\nThink of that poor farmer<br \/>\nHis livelihood lost that day<\/p>\n<p>Had those pigs been really loved<br \/>\nThey would still be alive<br \/>\nIn the woods out in the fields<br \/>\nSome might have survived<\/p>\n<p>All animals are able<br \/>\nTo swim they may have strived<br \/>\nSensed the coming waters<br \/>\nAnd moved to higher ground<br \/>\nBut locked inside their rotten barn<br \/>\nThat is where they were found<\/p>\n<p>Similarly during the tsunami animals chained up died<br \/>\nAnimals freely grazing moved to higher ground and were saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judgment of perceived love The question of the day Do you live in a story book Is that romance any way These pigs drowned when the water Came No one around to see No one around to give them love &hellip; 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