Do we live too long?
I have been listening to a program on TV BBC about Health service
which in Britain is said to be too costly because we are living longer?
Longevity should be celebrated and not seen as a burden
like the old should be guilty of being aged.
Portugal which a relatively poor country, take the Health service
for granted, but of course, it is a country where the timeworn are respected
When I collapsed at home in Portugal, it took the ambulance
twenty minutes to get here just in time to get my heart started again
I was fitted with a pacemaker, and it didn`t cost anything.
In Britain, the ambulance would not have been in haste, and I shudder
to think what it would have cost had I lived in the US.
We should be grateful for the National Health Service in Europe.
It is the young and the rich, who want to privatise the service,
the young because they can`t imagine getting old, the rich
because they will not pay more taxes and use private health service
of the posh kind with soft seat and no waiting line.
I`m glad I live in a civilised world where illness and cost do not include compere
where saving lives are the mark of culture.
Categories:
privatise, africa, blessing, books, break
Form: Blank verse
This Irish water is a standing joke
a state owned asset by the people
who paid taxes since our foundation
A basic right they are trying to deny us
to privatise it to foreign investment hands
Controlling the substance of all life force
paying of banking debts
with their ill gained purses
when they got fat bonuses as pay offs
A regular occurrence swept under
The government in this country
is far beyond a standing joke
So sad it's beyond a laughing matter
Suffering when everyone can see its criminal
what they are doing
forcing us into poverty and slavery
as the gap between rich and poor increases
They need to take their heads out
from under the sand and smell the roses
in the garden Orchard of wisdom
of the people they represent facts
Categories:
privatise, betrayal, political,
Form: Free verse
"The world is now a comedy
Human beings are the comdians
Oh I see I see in this life
Oh I see I see in this life
Human beings is the reason why
Every human beings cry
Thank God men are not God
It could have been worst
If men where God
The world would have ended so soon before now
If men where God
The air will have been privatise
The Sun will have been monopolized
The rain will have been hidden from
So many
Our forest will only be for the rich
Our land will be for mafians and their kabals
So every day I wake up
Only one thing so strong
I hold on to
The supreme above all men
Above every human being
Thank God men are not God
Yet I see I see I see
"The world is now a comedy
Human beings are the comedians
Oh I see I see in this life
Oh I see I see in this life
Human beings is the reason why
Every human beings cry
Thank God men are not God
It could have been worst
If men were God
We all are going to be nothing but skeleton and
The world will be a horrible paradise
Categories:
privatise, africa, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Lyric