OUR BRAVE WORLD OF 2022,. a poem by Tom Leonard

 

                                                         Our Brave World of 2022

                                                                   

                                                                  by Tom Leonard

                                                                                  

             Three hundred thousand cases of Covid guess-timated in Scotland last week

             While Zelensky stands for Ukraine

             The evil oligarchs are sent packing from Chelsea and beyond,

              And our children study for our future

             Climate change looms in the Australian floods

             And we seek to return to a pseudo-normality

             What is our crazy future? Who on earth knows?

             We struggle for survival, survival of the fittest

              And hopefully the less fit,

              Galton's eugenics effectively in action,

             While Bad Boris and the worthless prince survive the storm

             And live in their palatial homes

             For the moment at least,

             And carers struggle to care for our sick and elderly

             And our A and E's overflow while the NHS bravely struggles,

             The brave maintain their sanity, in the hope that the historians

             of 2522 will extoll the brave human race of 2022,

              on whichever planet our history is recorded.

              This could yet be Planet Earth, if our young take over

               Before the wise guys destroy us all.

               A curse on you all you western and eastern oligarchs

               And Prince Andrews

               For your destructive sins

               Which profane our brave humanity..