Stay Or Go - Brexit

With the sanctity of ignorance
Flocks follow the wolf 
With truth caged 
The masses flow 
With allegiance to whims
People praise their foes

One day it will be remembered
As a turning point
Brought about by spin
A footnote of incredulity 
A masked attack on democracy
A faithful adherence to overkill

Democracy has its foibles
Its idiosyncrasies
It can mount the stage and then flee
Taking not just liberty
But fraternity 
All the while gaining infamy 
Despite doing nought for you or me 

We praise nostalgia
We want only change that is none
We need the like button of eternity
To wrap us in plastic vanity
We prostrate to love
That is naked insularity 
Yet we make friends 
That follow meekly

Shout that the champion has arrived
Bellow that the steed of hope has entered with joy
Announce that kindness is free to loot our misery
And Make us understand conformity
Say nil that will smother our illicit fantasy

Rage 
What use is it now we have happy clown to praise 
Bawl 
A bit late when we bit the hand that took all away 
Fret 
Only if you wondered aloud when u saw the flames 
Pray
If your countenance is a member of the debating crew

It is given a name 
This mess that now has come home to roost
This tangle that untangles like glue
This trap that took what we brazenly knew 
While we sailed the ark two by two 

What side you cling to matters not
What hopes for dominance you may have
Withers as the drought of uncertainty fills the land
What crises you feel will come
May reveal a future that always made you glum
Speak for whom the bell tolls
The winner you know you will always scold

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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