This New New Year

Its cold amd damp outside But brighter that yesterday Maybe a sign of promise This new New Years’s Day. The shops are counting profits The shoppers their new debts Today is another Bank Holiday That’s as good as it gets. The rich are getting richer Day by day by day Thousands prepare to strike For decent rates of pay. Foodbanks nearly empty They are having to wait For the regular contributors To be able to afford to donate. The Brexiters dont want to talk About the Promised Land ahead Receding by the minute as The world laughs at us instead. There is still war in Europe One country is near destroyed But at least the arms purveyors Are being kept fully employed. Politicians preach on and on Each from their Ivory Tower Revelling in the privilege They get from being in power. The equinox is now passed so Longer days will soon be here The only thing that’s certain At we start this new New Year. Do we keep our heads in the sand And pretend everything is OK, Keep them there long enough and Hope it all eventually goes away, Or do we at last stand together Consciously make the choice To demand a better World with The People’s strongly massed voice?