IdeasTap Austerity poem

So IdeasTap - possibly one of the greatest arts resources on the internet at the moment offering young artisits across all forms of media. Fancying myself as a bit of a poet I entered this one with a little ditty about Austerity - all feedback is welcome and why not have a stab at it yourself if you think that you might have something in verse that would be up to it?!

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Possibly a little socialist for my tastes though you do find out a lot about yourself delving into the creative mind!

Austerity

By

Ted Wilkes

What if for a day

there is this place

where the rich are expected to pay their way

and not draped in opulence and disgrace?

                “A fair share for all” is the rally cry

                And then I awake without a dry eye.

What would the world be if we all paid our tax?

We’d only have other problems to solve.

It wouldn’t be the Bullingdon club who scratched each other’s backs

there’d simply be another corrupt power to dissolve.

They promise us this, they promise us that

in the end what else should we expect

besides another career politician in a different hat

with yet more principals, now in power, they reject.

Let’s look at what we have on offer

to run this island and abuse our coffer.

The Tory Toffs, the party of mam and dad.

The economy may have been in the loo

when you started and I’ll agree that’s certainly bad

but fix it now! It’s what you’re in power to do.

And then there’s the alternative with Ed minus a brother he stabbed so hard

with two wars to their name on the countries American express

who can’t be trusted with more than a Tesco club card

and now they simply expect us to do more with less?

Then there’s the liberals, the less said the better

savaged between the two like a dirty yellow bird

strutting around pretending to matter

as if anyone would care even if they could be heard.

“Oh isn’t it dreadful this Austerity thing.”

Goes up the chant

“If only it was that I was able to sing.”

Then I could be famous with no need to rant

and have all those things I deserve. Like that bling.

People; this all may be the Government’s fault

but there’s only one way that we can fix this mess.

“It’s those bankers who’s the problem.” I hear you exault

well let’s do something about it I would finally stress;

                We should band together and be united as one

                And change the world to better than what’s going on.