Don't open your eyes

Don't open your eyes
for goodness' sake
don't you dare look.
But file, and queue
And if you're shut out
Just shut up
and mark your cross with your thumb print

Don't open your eyes
for God's sake
I tell you what,
Look at these shoes instead,
Red wedges, blue converse; Red or Dead.

Eyes flick open
Focus, flutter
Shutter wide.

A Kingdom, Not a Playground

This is not the age to revel in liberty
Our freedom has spoiled us
And made us like infants
We need to look again
And see the image of God in us
This is the time to reflect our Creator
And create
And then to rule kindly and wisely
Exercise our dominion
Not gorge ourselves on licence
We are a Kingdom
Not a playground

General Election 2010

Bleary eyed and weary
Exhausted is more like it.
Why did I listen half the night?
Waiting to hear the result.
It has never been like this!


We are living in dangerous times;
The country deep in the mire,
Children dying on our streets,
Politicians fiddling expenses.
Greed, evy and a passion for power.

I woke this morning
And heard the news.
I am so confused.
Cameron has come in first
And yet he didn't win!

Clegg won the debate but
lost the election.
Brown just hangs on in there.
What now?
What happens next?

I remember words about
Brothers living in harmony.
I think about the meaning
Of unity.
Sharing and working together.

This is the time to unite.
This is the time to share.
This is the time to work together,
To build a government for the people,
To bow to a higher power.

Forget your pride,
Forget your differences
Stand shoulder to shoulder
Bring into being
A truly United Kingdom