Vital and vigorous
\nAn obstinate soul
\nThat will work for his master
\nIn an unflagging role
\nSturdy and hardy
\nAbled and strong
\nWhich sadly attracts
\nThose more feeble along
\nWho too soon lose face
\nFor the donkey has strength
\nHe will slave for his master
\nAnd go to great length<\/p>\n
China as advanced as she is
\nIn this world
\nHarps back onto old medicines
\nThat once hurled
\nThem into the dark ages
\nAnd onto now
\nWith the use of whole processed skins
\nKnown as E-Jiao<\/p>\n
Millions of donkeys
\nAre slaughtered each year
\nTheir skins soaked and boiled
\nTheir lives drenched in fear
\nHow is this strength
\nWhy is this right
\nThe meek need preserving
\nThose powerless to fight<\/p>\n
Such a beautiful animal
\nDoes deserve more
\nCompassion and hope
\nAnd Natural Law
\nShould now be protecting
\nThis heritage beast
\nAn animal really who should be the least<\/p>\n
Put upon savaged and murdered
\nSo you
\nTraditional Medicine
\nDares to work through
\nMillions of heartbeats
\nMillions souls
\nSuch answerable crimes
\nFrom so many roles<\/p>\n
In Brazil and in Africa
\nAnd Pakistan
\nAnd of course China
\nThe world wide plan
\nOf capturing markets
\nOf slaughter and pain
\nThe karma it\u2019s causing
\nTo China\u2019s refrain<\/p>\n
And of course there is a liableness
\nAnd obligation
\nThere are repercussions
\nAnd many a nation
\nShows it\u2019s concern
\nFor the murdering way
\nChina in curing
\nIs making its way<\/p>\n
Where is the intellect
\nThe powers of thought
\nYou are still in the dark ages
\nSomehow still caught
\nIn the mindlessness era
\nWhen progress is made
\nYou ought to move on
\nAnd prove now how brave<\/p>\n
You are for the ailments
\nThe e jiao is used
\nThere are many more medicines
\nAnd the abused
\nAnimals and for that matter
\nPeople who must
\nMurder on your behalf
\nWho in you trust<\/p>\n
prescribing medicines from so
\nLong ago
\nFor present day ailments
\nIt\u2019s not in the flow
\nOf substantive evidence
\nNot any more
\nIt\u2019s outdated outmoded
\nAnd against present law<\/p>\n
It\u2019s illogicality
\nReally chicanery
\nA flaw in the argument
\nSelf contradictory
\nIt\u2019s parochialism
\nSo penchant and wrong
\nAnd in this day and age
\nJust doesn\u2019t belong<\/p>\n
A donkey is sage like
\nIt\u2019s never a fool
\nIt\u2019s like a wise man
\nLucid as a rule
\nIt gives its whole heart
\nAnd it\u2019s terribly wrong
\nTo then take its life
\nBecause it is strong<\/p>\n
Delusions of grandeur
\nPossibly so
\nA four legged creature
\nThat never says No
\nThat works for his living
\nIs meek but is sure
\nGod never created this miracle
\nFor<\/p>\n
China to torture
\nChina to kill
\nChina to confuse
\nAnd to murder at will
\nOnly the sick maladjusted might feel
\nDemented enough to think
\nAnd conceal<\/p>\n
And be far sighted and prophetic
\nIn saying aloud
\nMurder the donkeys
\nBoil up the shroud
\nCreate the e jiao
\nIgnore the screams
\nThe foreboding apocalypse
\nIn peoples dreams<\/p>\n
The falsehoods now present
\nThe mendacity
\nIt is a perversion
\nThat does not need to be
\nBrought to the table
\nIn this day and age
\nIt\u2019s jiggery pokery
\nNow off the page<\/p>\n
Patients need to reject
\nThis iniquitous stuff
\nCausing shame and abuse
\nEnough is enough
\nGo and watch a dear donkey
\nBeaten to death
\nIt\u2019s hide stripped off
\nAs it breathes its last breath<\/p>\n
It pays a disservice
\nTo creation and light
\nTo everything godly
\nThat walks in the night
\nIt\u2019s an outrage a grievance
\nCausing angst to fly
\nThroughout the ether
\nAnd into the sky<\/p>\n
In pursuit of a cure
\nA prescription of death
\nOf woe and destruction
\nOf torture the breath
\nIs torn from a mild mannered animal who
\nHas as much chance at life
\nAs any of you<\/p>\n
If tHere is a great god
\nWhat chance is there he
\nWould allow all this murdering
\nEver to be
\nAcceptable truthfully
\nNow as a cure
\nHis miraculous gift
\nGiven and pure<\/p>\n
And you with your arrogance
\nChina explain
\nYou are wasting life
\nWhich to me is Insane
\nWhich puts down a marker
\nOf abject fear
\nOf spiritless knowledge
\nWhich now does appear<\/p>\n
Impassive and unimpressed
\nInsouciant too
\nIt\u2019s smacks of irreverence
\nYes it does do
\nAll of things as a matter of course
\nWith death dished out
\nReally at it source<\/p>\n
Copy to DR MARGARET CHAN
\nTCM
\nAnd to Chinese Government Beijing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vital and vigorous An obstinate soul That will work for his master In an unflagging role Sturdy and hardy Abled and strong Which sadly attracts Those more feeble along Who too soon lose face For the donkey has strength He … Continue reading