Blinded by Brexit

Blinded by Brexit

Blinded by Brexit

A proud nation limps on

Like a man with a shovel

Who keeps digging along

A fissure that opens 

Dividing a country  

Driven mad by a virus 

That predated Covid. 

A once sensible people 

Some now barking and mad

One could not imagine

So needless and sad. 

Everything seen through

Union Jack glasses

Spec-savers was closed 

So it’s unfocused lenses.

The periscope’s fogged 

The world’s out of focus 

They should come up for some air

They should rise to surface. 

A clear minded country

That once ruled the waves

Now flounders in shallows;

No freedom to travel

A proud people ruined

By a press than enslaves

And a party that lies

To a people who won’t

Wake up and smell

The stench of corruption

Of a self serving elite 

Nesting like cuckoos

In Ten Downing Street. 

I meet you and weep

In your quaint nursing home

The nurses are nice

Disinfectant is cheap. 

You do not remember

The wonderful times

We spent on the Med

Drinking red wine. 

My visiting time 

Has come to a close

I can see from your eyes

You don’t recognize. 

A savage disease

Has ravaged your body

For the Brexit contagion

Has destroyed half a nation. 

I’ll visit again

The same time next Sunday

Though all is forgotten

By breakfast on Monday.