{"id":44515,"date":"2020-03-02T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=44515"},"modified":"2020-03-02T13:18:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:18:42","slug":"a-plea-from-a-kangaroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/03\/a-plea-from-a-kangaroo\/","title":{"rendered":"A plea from a kangaroo MOTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We feel blighted we feel slighted<br \/>\nDisappointed that mankind<br \/>\nConsider themselves as caring<br \/>\nAnd thoughtful<br \/>\nUnderlined<br \/>\nin all these flowery<br \/>\nFlowing terms<br \/>\nWhat  we really see<br \/>\nAs marsupials in wildness<br \/>\nIs a torrid cruelty<\/p>\n<p>Yes a disenchantment<br \/>\nThwarted so to say<br \/>\nreally humiliated<br \/>\nBy the fences along the way<br \/>\nThat frustrate and that injure<br \/>\nSo many of us who<br \/>\ngo about our daily lives<br \/>\nDoing what we do<\/p>\n<p>In tune with our Great Mother<br \/>\nWho placed us where we be<br \/>\nSome 80,000 years we have leapt<br \/>\nThroughout the history<br \/>\nThe red earth is our carpet<br \/>\nThe blue ness is our sky<br \/>\nOur love and true affection<br \/>\nIs the reason we get by<\/p>\n<p>Our far sightedness<br \/>\nAnd memories<br \/>\nHold us in god sted<br \/>\nSagaciously we use each leap<br \/>\nOf faith and it has led<br \/>\nUs to surmise a better future<br \/>\nUntil the barbed wire fence<br \/>\nThe evil of the human being<br \/>\nDesigned to make us tense<\/p>\n<p>We feel great pain as you do<br \/>\nHung over as some are<br \/>\nDying in the sun and dust<br \/>\nYour fences how they scar<br \/>\nAnd frustrate our inner being<br \/>\nWhere have your sages gone?<br \/>\nWhy do you erect such frightening things<br \/>\nOut there now upon<\/p>\n<p>Our frequency of wildness spaces<br \/>\nThey are vacuous and wrong<br \/>\nThey injure and they maim us<br \/>\nAnd really do not belong<br \/>\nIn a countryside of saintly beings<br \/>\nWhere Wild  mothers train their young<br \/>\nWhere genius is evident clearly now among<\/p>\n<p>The hordes of wild marsupials<br \/>\nFrequenting these parts<br \/>\nCaught up on the degeneracy<br \/>\nEach fence of broken hearts<br \/>\nThe flagrancy and wrong doing<br \/>\nTransgressing as they do<br \/>\nSo many of us bleeding out<br \/>\nAnd crying out to you<\/p>\n<p>In iniquity personified<br \/>\nIt\u2019s real depravity<br \/>\nMany a mother meets her death<br \/>\nAlong with her joey<br \/>\nImagine the guilt and burden<br \/>\nThat a wild mother feels<br \/>\nThe enormity the atrocity<br \/>\nThat hanging there reveals<\/p>\n<p>Where is your voice of conscience<br \/>\nWhere is your remorse<br \/>\nWe need some reparation<br \/>\nFor this is death at source<br \/>\nCutting off our air borne paths<br \/>\nOur tried and tested way<br \/>\nIs a principle of evil<br \/>\nGetting worse and worse each day<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s born out of your selfishness<br \/>\nYour egocentricity<br \/>\nShare with us a bounty<br \/>\nAnd in heaven you will see<br \/>\nA freeing up of spirit<br \/>\nA virtuous display<br \/>\nOf treasures plain and simple<br \/>\nOn yes your judgement day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We feel blighted we feel slighted Disappointed that mankind Consider themselves as caring And thoughtful Underlined in all these flowery Flowing terms What we really see As marsupials in wildness Is a torrid cruelty Yes a disenchantment Thwarted so to &hellip; 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