Polling Day

Uniteâ€™s Joy Johnsonâ€™s hard hitting comment in poetry

Joy Johnson, Friday, June 14th, 2019

Wearing the rosette.

Have you voted yet?

Beguiled by the looking glass of nostalgia

democracy once a noble endeavour.

Equality and social justice

enduring for ever.

Until it doesnâ€™t.

Theyâ€™re all the same.

Liars all liars.

Only In it for themselves.

Disillusionment.Â Â Is that new?Â No

Is it worse? Yes

Cleaning moats.Â Flipping houses,

Parliamentarians living on expenses.

Trouble in the Tory party.

Sceptics on the green benches.

PM took a gamble

called for a take it or leave it referendum.Â

Voters determining momentum.

An electoral vortex

tore through the country

echoing to the populist refrain

the will of the people.

B****cks to Brexit.

Political rhetoric

language of reality TV

fake news and celebrity.

Cries of treachery and betrayal.

Now we are left with a political crisis

judgements made on the answer

are you a Brexiteer or a Remainer?

Still wearing the rosette.

Have you voted yet?