Boris is a Leader – a poem

Boris is a Leader

 

Leadership and management

A useful combination.

 

A leader can point towards a far off place

That is full of danger;

Arouse a crowd to fury,

Inspire them to follow,

And lead them off in haste

To struggle through swamps,

And poisonous terrain;

To starve, weaken and despair,

On their way to disaster.

 

A manager studies the destination,

Addresses the map,

Sorts the route,

Calculates distance and time,

Collects provisions,

Organises transport

And enables everyone to arrive

Properly equipped.

Even if he could not get many people to follow.

 

Boris is a leader.

 

24.7.2019

 

 

Why is it that we are always in thrall to nincompoops who lead us into disaster? Did we learn nothing from the charge of the Light Brigade?

 

What is required is a combination of the two. Seemingly that is an exceedingly rare commodity.

 

The lust for power propels the megalomaniacs to dupe us all the time with their rousing speeches and lack of substance!!

 

I fear the country lurches to disaster!