The Body Politic

Politics – rule by a few
Who try to tell us what to do
Whose grasp on power tends to fail
When Satan forms their holy grail.

Election claims are for the birds!
Corruption, greed and honeyed words
Soon worm their way inside their souls;
In many countries the bell tolls...

The World Stage needs new men and true
People who can see right through
Those get-rich-schemes that bleed us dry
And on global warming try

To make amends; we stand to lose
Our natural habitat – the clues
Loom large – a holocaust of bees
Will bring us quickly to our knees...

Mass emigration, refugees
Soil atrophy, the loss of trees
Shrinking icecap – melting floes
As Attenborough at Davos* shows...

Our world's a mess; yet leaders shrink
From yanking us back from the brink
Wastage, NIMBY**, short-term goals
Prevail; but we should backtrack roles...

(c) Poet in the woods 2019



* Sir David Attenborough at the World Economic Forum, CH, Jan 2019
** NIMBY: Not-In-My-BackYard