Fear

The nature of the sickness found Ulysses

What is the answer …?

Does Fear hold the world in balance,

Intelligence inform the will?

Do we unleash a famished wolf

As flies flee under cover?

Lies filter through the net,

A President tweets precedents

Diverts an accusation

Conspiracy with the KGB!

Endangering his nation.

Europe’s bastion splinters.

A farrago of lies

Accuses and denies

Without the need for truth,

No supporting proof.

Men in power need certainty,

So the crowd come they care not,

Accuse the accuser of a base intent

Feel no fear World War is near.

Have we the need or time

To engender rhyme?

To authorise a jingle

About the power and will

Of men emerging from the jungle,

To find new hope to dangle

Over those who are seeking rope

To save or hang themselves,

And find a soundbite salves

The stress of powerlessness

To see no criminality

In a mad pretence of democracy?

Who hears the tramp of boots come near

And does not feel anxiety, or fear?

©Terry Hodgson2020