day SIX HUNDRED and NINETY THREE

Scared

Just for today

I have to admit

That I am scared

Perhaps I am being

Paranoid

But

But........

Trump in the White House

Trouble as ever

In the middle East

England as poverty stricken

As I have ever seen it

And after the early 90's

I really didn't think

I would ever see it worse

But now it is much

Much worse

As I say, perhaps

It's me

As people get older

They begin to think

Automatically

That the world

Is going downhill

Looking back through

Rose tinted spectacles

At their perfect past

I hope that this is

What this is

I really hope that this is

What this is

But 10 years ago

I had never seen

Food Banks before

Or soup kitchens

Not in my time anyway

I'd seen pictures from

The 1930's of course

And pictures of the

Hunger Marches

But I never seriously

Thought I'd have to

Use a food bank myself

Relying on the charity

Of strangers

When the government

Has become too vicious

To feed the people

Who pay their wages

And yet progress

Rolls on and on

The gap between

Rich and poor

Grows wider and

Wider  all the time

Before too long

They will just

Kill all of the poor

And make

Uncomplaining robots

To cater to the rich

And their every whim

Unless they don't have to

Unless they don't have to

--Ian Lewis Copestick