Whats Great About Britain
Great Britain !
What is actually Great about Britain ?
Is it our overriding sense of Virtue ?
How we feel it is our God given right to criticize ?
Or present our way of life and values to aspire to ?
Who made us the Referee's of the World ?
Have any of them put a mirror up to us ?
Because I have and its far from pretty !
Let me write you an impartial little ditty
Based on the average day in the life of the ordinary citizen
Hopefully based on actual factual events
If you live in any City much like Liverpool
Young and go to a comprehensive school
The students are no longer fooled into thinking
That good grades lead to a good job some day
That is why they are seduced into a life of crime
If they wish to socially climb
And the legal system only serves to propergates this notion
As it is biased towards the criminals not there victim's
It is a hopelessly corrupt system
For when you are charged as a minor
You get a slap on your wrist
And a stern telling off saying please dont do it again
Children doing the bidding for wretched Men
And our so called Politicians pretend to be stone deaf
So there constituents stop hounding them to death
Ask stop asking them
What are they actually doing
That will in anyway make there circumstances any better
What is the point writing a letter or signing a petition
Or marching from daylight to dark
When apathy begins with every thought
From putting food on the table to being able
To expressing the fundamental right of free speech
If anyone is in doubt the meek shall inherit the earth
Spend a life in the day not in the countryside
But rather take a bus ride
Out of the bright lights of the big city
And the view is not so rosy or pretty
If you wish to hold a placard or choose to march
Would it not be better for you to place your wrath upon
Lest we never forget
On repaying the debt on the fallen soldiers of 2 World Wars
On making Britain a fitting resting place
A place worthy of them dying for
There sacrifice and there memory is the only thing worthy of fighting for
And if you remember or take nothing else from this
This Britian we slight is where and what they actually fought for
And all they asked for in return
Was for us to cherish and look after it
As much as they did
Ask not what your country can do for you
But what you can do to be worthy of it
And its fallen hero's
Copyright © Christopher Flaherty | Year Posted 2018
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