Poetry – Election Reality

Election Reality

As glee turns to gloom

In the stroke of a pen

Ballot papers

Crash in the box.

Supporters all cheer

While clenching their fists

And sweat gathers

In socks.

They await the count

As the tellers tot up and tension grows in the room.

Aspirations and hopes

Hang on anxious threads yearning to lift the gloom.

Who can tell the outcome?

The people have spoke!

The arrogant fall.

The certainty broke.

Now’s not the time

For the bold to choke!!

Opher – 8.6.2017

There is always a great deal of excitement around elections. We stay up all night to see our most hated heinous politicians voted out and to await the outcome.

Referendums are even worse.

It doesn’t always work out the right way though. Often we are landed with an obnoxious outcome that we have to swallow. All too often the results go against the dreams we have for the future.

The art is to pick yourself up and continue the fight for what is right.

The dream is not destroyed – merely delayed.

Elections – a poem

Elections

 

Elections with crosses deciding our fate.

Philosophies and creeds in all different shapes

With the hopes of millions the weak and the great.

 

The jubilant and despondent pondering the course

Of the campaigns and voting – their whims and their source

Now fixed in concrete as the electorate endorse.

 

The country waits with bated breath

To watch the outcomes, promotions and death

To see the dust settle and find what is left.

 

All have expectation,

All have their dreams,

But always in politics

It’s not what it seems.

The pursuit of power

Undermines the ideals,

In political parties

It’s a battle of wills

People are lost

Amid the blood and the cuts

As the big-wigs promote self

With no ifs and no buts.

Care and consideration

Receive a refusal

In the heat of government

It’s business as usual.

 

Opher – 8.6.2017

 

 

Watching the antics of the Tory Brexiteers as they play out their games, jostling for position to gain power without a care for the people they represent. The country comes a long way second, if not third.

 

In politics it is not about what is best for the country. That always comes last. Sometimes it is about what is good for the party, even if that is bad for the rest of us. But really it is just about self and selfish aims as the ambitious prats are prepared to stab their best friends in the back, dump their party in the sewage and promote themselves with every dirty trick. It’s all about winning.

 

Selfishness and greed are the motives. There are no rules.

 

I wrote this a year ago but it seems even more pertinent now as Gove, Rees-Mogg, Boris and others all struggle to promote themselves. They are prepared to dump the country into a terrible deal with Europe, tear their own party apart and pull the government down and rip the throats out of their colleagues. May is like a scraggy kitten being ripped apart by wolves.

It would be amusing if it wasn’t so serious.

Elections – poem

Elections

 

Elections with crosses deciding our fate

Philosophies and creeds in all different shapes

With the hopes of millions the weak and the great.

 

The jubilant and despondent pondering the course

Of the campaigns and voting – their whims and their source

Now fixed in concrete as the electorate endorse.

 

The country waits with bated breath

To watch the outcomes, promotions and death

To see the dust settle and find what is left.

 

All have expectation

All have their dreams

But always in politics

It’s not what it seems

The pursuit of power

Undermines the ideals

In political parties

It’s a battle of wills

People are lost

Amid the blood and the cuts

As the big-wigs promote

Self with no ifs and no buts

Care and consideration

Receive a refusal

In the heat of government

It’s business as usual.

 

Opher – 8.6.2017

The down-side to elections.

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a. We always end up with a government.

b. We sometimes end up with a government that is the lesser of two evils.

c. We sometimes end up with a government that is the worst of two evils.

d. There is no way of changing the system. The establishment is in control. You need billions of pounds to create real choice.

e. They treat us like idiots. They make promises that they never carry out. They lie and cheat. They misrepresent the truth.

f. After they get elected they do the nasty things. Then just before an election they do some nice things and tell us it is all much better than it was.

g. Every time we change government they chuck out everything the previous lot did, whether it was good or bad, and start from scratch wasting billions.

h. There is no long-term planning because it will all be geared to winning votes at the next election.

I. Politicians are all about power and not about making things better. They do not look at anything in terms of whether it is a real benefit – they look at it in terms of whether it will appeal to voters and keep them in power.

j. Politicians are also about feathering their own nest. They want to establish links with business and media to secure nice fat purses instead of representing the people.

k. Lots of sociopaths and psychopaths are attracted into politics and do very well because of their lack of empathy, ruthless methods, cold-blooded calculations and single-minded selfishness. We have had a number of psychologically vicious psychopaths as leaders. People seem to like them. They are black and white and strong.

l. They are ideologically driven rather than logic and common sense. They want to control us and force us to do what they want and produce for the select group they represent.

m. You know when a politician is lying. You can see their lips move!

n. The real issues – overpopulation, the environment, poverty, equality etc. are not addressed!

Politicians – I despise nearly all of them!

Yet you have to vote and hope that we can at least alleviate some of the worst excesses of the worst of them. Democracy does give us a limited power. That’s better than none. If we let them have free rein we’d be in a tyranny.