Bad Poetry

[Marvin]

I always thought that the health of a society,

Was reflected in how it treated it's most vulnerable,

And our country still sits at the top table,

Of the richest on the planet,

Yet it is quietly unravelling the fabric,

That holds our society together,

And of the first victims of this impoverishment,

Is our most vulnerable, the poor and disabled,

Universal Credit sounds innocuous enough,

With crab like cunning

This new order of payments to those entitled

Has a gap between old and new 

Of five weeks

A cliff edge that throws those most vulnerable

Into that hell called homelessness,

Where most don't survive a second winter

As for the rest, further indebted

They live with the fear of sanction

By a system both punitive and cruel

For not chasing hard enough for the shittiest jobs,

Or for just being late,

Sliding back to a Dickensian past

A children's story now includes

Visiting the food bank Normalising the unacceptable

And one in three children now live in poverty

 

Is this the country we really love?

We voted these people in.

I for one would think twice before trusting them with my Yes,

That choice is yours;

As " There but for fortune

Go you or I"

 

 

[martoon]

24 minutes ago, Marvin said:

I always thought that the health of a society,

Was reflected in how it treated it's most vulnerable,

And our country still sits at the top table,

Of the richest on the planet,

Yet it is quietly unravelling the fabric,

That holds our society together,

And of the first victims of this impoverishment,

Is our most vulnerable, the poor and disabled,

Universal Credit sounds innocuous enough,

With crab like cunning

This new order of payments to those entitled

Has a gap between old and new 

Of five weeks

A cliff edge that throws those most vulnerable

Into that hell called homelessness,

Where most don't survive a second winter

As for the rest, further indebted

They live with the fear of sanction

By a system both punitive and cruel

For not chasing hard enough for the shittiest jobs,

Or for just being late,

Sliding back to a Dickensian past

A children's story now includes

Visiting the food bank Normalising the unacceptable

And one in three children now live in poverty

 

Is this the country we really love?

We voted these people in.

I for one would think twice before trusting them with my Yes,

That choice is yours;

As " There but for fortune

Go you or I"

 

 

 

Wee bit worried about you, Marv.

 

Just read a post of yours in the "Green Bottle" thread over on the Terrace. 

 

Apologies if I'm way off course or approaching this a bit clumsily. Just reaching out, bud.

 

 

[Marvin]

16 minutes ago, martoon said:

 

Wee bit worried about you, Marv.

 

Just read a post of yours in the "Green Bottle" thread over on the Terrace. 

 

Apologies if I'm way off course or approaching this a bit clumsily. Just reaching out, bud.

 

 

 

Cheers mate. I'm ok. That poem I posted was attached to a shop window round the corner from my work. With all the reports in the news surrounding Brexit and UC I thought I'd post.  

[martoon]

31 minutes ago, Marvin said:

 

Cheers mate. I'm ok. That poem I posted was attached to a shop window round the corner from my work. With all the reports in the news surrounding Brexit and UC I thought I'd post.  

 

Ok, bud. 👍