A Place In the Sun

"We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun shall remain our undisputed possession." - Kaiser Wilhelm II - 1901 The temperatures rising It’s hardly surprising That tempers are beginning to flare. The ceasefire’s broken Ultimatums have been spoken The brinkmen have issued their dare And the jet planes are flying overhead into Ashkelon Everything is coming undone And it’s hot out here in the sun But every one of us wants a place in the sun. The rockets are flying While another boy is dying Caught with his hands in the air And the mother is crying For the son who is lying In a pool of crimson despair While the jet planes are flying over, heading to Ashkelon It looks like something’s begun And it’s hot out here in the sun But every one of us want a place in the sun. And the tanks are rolling boldly Like wolves upon the fold Leaving nothing but destruction for all And the President is beaming As reports are now streaming In telling of the enemy’s fall And the jet planes are dealing out death over Ashkelon While we tell ourselves, the good guys have won And it’s hot out here in the sun But every one of us wants a place in the sun. © Barry Freeman 15th May 2021