TOWEL DOWN!

by Rosemary Clarke

Stop wiping out all your mistakes
as though they've never been
you're only in the government
not the King or Queen!
Stop hiding behind parliament
and all your cronies there
stop making lots of stupid rules.
Do you really care?
This disease closes down our lives
but what about our dreams?
We do not know just where we stand
with your convoluted schemes!
You act like a puppet master
but we will not be led
by people who are lying,
TELL US THE TRUTH INSTEAD!
Let us know ALL good and bad
and what's REALLY being done

Then everyone will work it out
we can help everyone.
if you insist on playing fools
And treating us like kids
I would say your place in Westminster
is really on the skids.
Many have seen much of life
we've all done many things
so let us know, we'll take the strife
and help others to bring.

But most of all just LISTEN
to what the people say
we KNOW it's FAR worse than we thought
that things are not okay.
We want to help, but you insist
on keeping us like blind
the things you're doing to this land
are really most unkind.
We're human animals all of us
and we DESERVE the test
tell us the TRUTH, let us decide
we will do our best.
It was the people who won wars
not only those in power
and yet you sit there with your pack
up in your Ivory tower.
ALL of us DESERVE the BEST
ALL RACES, COLOURS & CREEDS
So TELL US and we'll do the rest
That's what this country needs!

Copyright Rosemary Clarke