{"id":172,"date":"2020-01-04T02:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2020-01-04T02:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T01:21:40","slug":"whales-english-version","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/?page_id=172","title":{"rendered":"Whales (english version)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>I watch you surfacing in the waves<br>From depths unknown<br>Your giant body dancing as though weightless<br>Trailing traces of foam across the sea<br>And then I watch you in a round pool<br>You seem to turn around a thousand times<br>A coach is holding a steel ring up to you<br>And people want to see you jump<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I watch you swimming towards the coast-line<br>Along with your school<br>In the shallow waters the flood is rolling you ashore<br>And nothing moves you out of here<br>Oil slicks have been dulling your perception<br>Your territories are collapsing<br>Sonar tests are paralyzing your senses<br>Diesel noise is silencing your song<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#8217;t you know?<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Your doom has been determined long ago<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; You are one in a line of other creatures<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Being preyed upon and crushed<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; As if their lives had never really been their own<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; I ask myself, is this because man feels a hidden grudge<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; That amongst all mammals<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Wisdom begins but with the whale<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; And we are only cunning?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I watch you drifting in the waves<br>The ocean turning red<br>Captain Ahab&#8217;s heirs are waging war against you cowardly<br>With their hi-tech battle ship<br>For centuries they have been hunting you<br>You never saw man as an enemy<br>Your death for ambergris, skin cream, lipstick<br>Cannot understand this sacrilege<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I watch you leaving a wake behind as you swim where your feelings take you<br>A screaming flock of sea-gulls following your path &#8211; to where the oceans touch the sky&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wale4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch you surfacing in the wavesFrom depths unknownYour giant body dancing as though weightlessTrailing traces of foam across the seaAnd then I watch you in a round poolYou seem to turn around a thousand timesA coach is holding a steel ring up to youAnd people want to see you jump I watch you swimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrislauffs.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}