a good drink
to drown your sorrows
a nice drop
to look forward to
after a long day at work
chill out and relax
the sun
never set on the british empire
enormous wealth generated
whilst the british workers
lived in squalid housing
diseased with low wages
the rich got richer
the poor
oh them -
fine print
designed to take your money
legal rigmarole to obscure
legal traps
there is something sad
about the dying embers of the day
each one brings us closer
to our own sunset
Midweek Motif - Poets United
Love them all! Thanks for a good morning read, Rall!
ReplyDeleteLove the different moods of the stanzas, specially the first one: after a long day at work / chill out and relax...
ReplyDeleteOuch! The drink and "our own sunset" connect here, as if the sadness of lack of power is quelled in drink. Whew!
ReplyDeleteLoved reading all.
ReplyDeleteLuvved them all. My favourite; that drink to chill at #1
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by my blog today
much love...
Oh that closing one especially hits the mark. Smiles. Loved them all.
ReplyDeleteWonderful stanzas. I especially enjoyed the relaxed tone of the first.
ReplyDeleteInteresting emphasis on the emotions of finality here.
ReplyDeleteWell-penned snippets. The sun never set on the empire while the working class toiled and the colonized died in famines. Ha! Seems the sun did set for everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThe last one is of course the most evocative. Lovely! :-)
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It is interesting that the most dangerous prey in the world for humans are other greedy humans. We don't eat each other just destroy them financially. Whereas the sunset is not so sad or bad for we can now look forward to tomorrow's sunrise which gives us one more day to enjoy or worry about the money we have just lost!
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ReplyDeleteThe last one especially spoke to me. Thank you.