April 10, 2019Poem

I will miss her even more when I am alone.

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I will miss her even more when I am alone.

I have no confidence

In politicians

To do the right thing

In big business

To care about

Ordinary people

In need of a fair deal

With their right

To live a good life

Free of the threat

Of poverty

Where a good health service

And care for the weak

Is a given

Not a burden

I have no confidence

In justice

When pharmaceutical

Companies hold the balance of power

In the health of a nation

Hold the world

To ransom over a cure

For disease

And wait

Until the price is right

Before they agree

To let it be

Even in wonder

The world is bleak

It defies expectation

Belies the disguise

Of self determination

I have no confidence

In its explanation

Or repatriation

Alone

I have no confidence

In me.