{"id":46926,"date":"2020-07-20T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=46926"},"modified":"2020-07-20T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:30:46","slug":"there-are-no-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/07\/there-are-no-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"There are no excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There  can be no excuses<br \/>\nFor The hatred and the pain<br \/>\nThe innocent regarded<br \/>\nAs cannon fodder plain and simple<br \/>\nIn onlookers eyes<br \/>\nAttrition on a scale<br \/>\nBeyond what is offensive<br \/>\nAnd guaranteed to fail<\/p>\n<p>A wonderful assemblage<br \/>\nOf neutrality<br \/>\nPacifism and non violence<br \/>\nWho conscientiously<br \/>\nAre Travelling  with tranquility<br \/>\nComfortably and true<br \/>\nBasking in the daylight<br \/>\nProvidential that\u2019s my view<\/p>\n<p>Euphoric under a cloudless sky<br \/>\nFor them a family tree<br \/>\nPhilosophers and teachers<br \/>\nPropitious naturally<br \/>\nStudents infants the venerable<br \/>\nAll of them at peace<br \/>\nTheir goddess offering up a time<br \/>\nOf genuine release<\/p>\n<p>Into their vale of sorrows<br \/>\nUtter despondency<br \/>\nA wretchedness beyond all thought<br \/>\nA plague that shouldn\u2019t be<br \/>\nAn ugly visitation<br \/>\nA trough of misery<br \/>\nAn annus horribilis<br \/>\nA vast calamity<\/p>\n<p>Ominous and sinister<br \/>\nA catastrophic sign<br \/>\nThe cold hand of humanity<br \/>\nThe demons that now dine<br \/>\nTheir antipathetic bleakness<br \/>\nWretched and forlorn<br \/>\nThey reached the Faroes Islands<br \/>\nWhere no angel was ever born<\/p>\n<p>And authority and governance<br \/>\nSuperior by name<br \/>\nClaiming tribal federalism<br \/>\nSuch an autocratic claim<br \/>\nSanctioned to be masterful<br \/>\nLordly even they<br \/>\nTyrannical and feudal<br \/>\nTheir brute force the display<\/p>\n<p>Their intolerance and rigour<br \/>\nTheir oppression sadly comes<br \/>\nPitiless and callous<br \/>\nBanging on their drums<br \/>\nDespots subjugation<br \/>\nTo be the memory<br \/>\nIntolerant despisers<br \/>\nUncompromisingly<\/p>\n<p>Utterly authoritarian<br \/>\nThe hearts<br \/>\nBroken we who witness<br \/>\nIt\u2019s off all of the charts<br \/>\nMasterful and domineering<br \/>\nA crackdown so severe<br \/>\nLiterally angels torn apart<br \/>\nIn a melee of such fear<\/p>\n<p>Fanatical and unbending<br \/>\nUncompromisingly<br \/>\nMercilessly punitive<br \/>\nA Heavy handed constancy<br \/>\nEveryone a tyrant<br \/>\nRun roughshod over all<br \/>\nA blood bath so detestable<br \/>\nAn indulgence to appal<\/p>\n<p>Witnessing the horror<br \/>\nAs some of us who were there<br \/>\nHad to the oppression<br \/>\nIt was hard to bear<br \/>\nThat show of force<br \/>\nWith jackboots oppressors everyone<br \/>\nAll bloodsucking ogres<br \/>\nNow that that day is done<\/p>\n<p>Gang warfare ugly terrorists<br \/>\nRefuseniks in a way<br \/>\nSo many are against them<br \/>\nQuislings who display<br \/>\nAn intractable position<br \/>\nWhere angels fear to tread<br \/>\nWho flout the gods continually<br \/>\nAnd leave our angels dead<\/p>\n<p>Compelled they say from hunger<br \/>\nFrom history they must<br \/>\nAttack and murder families<br \/>\nTheir need therefore is just<br \/>\nThey are an island nation<br \/>\nWho believe in slavery<br \/>\nA disadvantaged people<br \/>\nOppressed continuously<\/p>\n<p>Purloiners of the innocent<br \/>\nBrigands we might add<br \/>\nMurderers who call the tune<br \/>\nIn this day and age as bad<br \/>\nEquivalent to highwaymen<br \/>\nPlunderers of the sea<br \/>\nAnd the families are the spoils of war<br \/>\nAnd they will always be<\/p>\n<p>A poverty Of spirit<br \/>\nDestitute of care<br \/>\nTheir compassion in recession<br \/>\nIt will never be there<br \/>\nThey have made themselves the monsters<br \/>\nOf this day and age<br \/>\nAcquisitive and miserly<br \/>\nTheir standing off the page<\/p>\n<p>An island state mentality<br \/>\nObtuse in every way<br \/>\nTheir insouciance is  ugly<br \/>\nAt the butt end of each day<br \/>\nTheir brutish inhumanity<br \/>\nStoical and slow<br \/>\nPoker faced unseeing<br \/>\nTheir soulless heartless show<\/p>\n<p>Intolerable exhibitionists<br \/>\nThudding in the extreme<br \/>\nEven the pregnant are ignored<br \/>\nAs grandmothers do scream<br \/>\nInfants tiny babies<br \/>\nSuch loathsome abuse<br \/>\nIt\u2019s sickening to talk about<br \/>\nThey are tumours on the loose<\/p>\n<p>Creating constant martyrs<br \/>\nPut to the rack they be<br \/>\nBlooded harshly<br \/>\nWhereupon we see a crimson sea<br \/>\nOf froth and guts and sinew<br \/>\nAnd snot and sputum where<br \/>\nWhat was a peaceful ocean scene<br \/>\nIs harrowing despair<\/p>\n<p>Maddening and galling<br \/>\ntragical and sad<br \/>\nDeplorable and ghastly<br \/>\nOf course it makes me mad<br \/>\nOf course it makes me angry<br \/>\nIt\u2019s insufferable after all<br \/>\nAnd the bastards get away with it<br \/>\nAnd Denmark does not call<\/p>\n<p>Them to account nor Scotland<br \/>\nNo corporations  near and far<br \/>\nWho queue up to buy farmed salmon from<br \/>\nThem<br \/>\nConfirming that they are<br \/>\nVery far from starving<br \/>\nAn island Nation they<br \/>\nPer capita have no need for such<br \/>\nFor their vileness and their way<\/p>\n<p>Their  gravity their demureness<br \/>\nThe doleful woeful tears<br \/>\nThe activists the warriors<br \/>\nWho feel the greatest fears<br \/>\nThe uncongenial islands<br \/>\nThrowbacks In a way<br \/>\nWhen pirating and pillage<br \/>\nWas the order of the day<\/p>\n<p>I detest the Faroes<br \/>\nTheir unsightliness I see<br \/>\nHaggard and the sands of time<br \/>\nExpose the hideosity<br \/>\nSo offensive to the eyes<br \/>\nGargoyles of the sea<br \/>\nRavaged shapeless ungrateful clods<br \/>\nOf true 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