Kit Kelen #1235 - dark ages continue

1235

dark ages continue

everyone could have been wrong

                   had to be

a vote for hate

is a vote for spite

is a vote for greed of course

they’ve done it again

would rather give in

I vote for myself, don’t you?

see the world can be so much better

never enough to have dreamed

the horse is on course

once more

into the breach!

facelessly

so it must always be

it has been done

no one will know it was me

breathe in!

breathe it all out!

comrades!    

somebody loses

when there’s a sausage

unless of course…

you see the how world can be  

never enough to have dreamed it so

we’re raw

were once a commonwealth

looked out for you

looked out for me

let’s dig up some more for a buck

and burn a bit as well

we each burn more than anyone

but let’s not tell the truth

they have done it again

I blame John

he made the meanness

signature of sorts

and we will lock them up on an island

who come to us for hope

now how will we manage with the disease?

live the fullest lives?

just have to make the country ourselves

for a hobby, in spare time

friends, here’s how it was

yesterday, came out to cast their dark

the truth has

shall we say

it’s gone badly

at the national barbeque

burnt my sausage

would rather have smoke

than get the flame right

and here, another lump of coal?

knock down the poppies before they get tall

this is Evil Greed, our leader

note the dark cape, blue tie

one of the Inevitables

our sort of super hero

his the big nothing

that’s what we get

magician’s defiance!
and the blackguard

good for another go round

tears the dagger from his breast to dance

on the graves of the good and the great

who has the heart to go on?

who is heartless enough to abandon?

a vote for hate

is a vote for spite

is a vote for greed of course

shake it in the little box

what will it take to come to our senses?

dark ages continue

barbarians are ear to ear

with － can we call it pride?  

once I grew so fat

on a promise

age of meanness

age of spite

thugs will always rule

no, I will never believe that!

go back to my quiet corner to hope

but they’ve done it again

ignored best advice

all done facelessly

so it must be

would rather have idiots running the place

would rather give in to lies

burn the sausage

I blame little Johnny

their deity － the toga boy

how dark will you make our hearts today?

how little can we care?

everyone was wrong about

just how far can you not-think?

well… further than we thought

here’s codger clinging

to his raft, hers

it’s secret

suddenly there’s ‘housie!’

no one’s touching mine

no youngster’s getting their own either

money in the bank!

the knife in the back

it’s faceless, how else?

we go back to the unthinkable

now let’s at it tooth and claw

we’re raw with it yet

the vote for hate

was a vote for spite

was a vote for greed of course

how are minds made up?

and what will it take?

and haven’t we been here before?

chroruses!

the action breaks in

truth for a looming threat

live the difference

is what we must

be the common wealth ourselves

they only wish to be left to their dinner

which is the rest of us of course

those who have no human voice

and hope to pass it on

you coming to your voices now

please will you witness what we are

throw up hands in disbelief

can’t help it

but that way how far do we get?

you need not be

what we’ve become

everyone could have been wrong

                   had to be

run out of cheeks to turn yet again

breathe in!

breathe it all out!

despite the governments

vox pops

baser instincts

played to, won

there’s so much better we can do

seas rise

we’re going down

don’t have to drown without a fight

but

be the change!
live the difference!

we must be the roar!