NO LONGER SCARLET

NO LONGER SCARLET

 

I say, now stop, look back and think

Of all the times that came and went

Just thinking naught may come of it

But now you’ll be turning on the spit

The promises given, yet never meant

Made quicker than an eye can blink

 

A life that’s just lived without regard

For other’s welfare or means to cope

Strutting around like a pompous prig

See hurt from afar but not care a fig

Around the neck you’ll feel the rope

There’ll be no turn of a friendly card

 

You’ve been so adept at looking away

In your world of money and privilege

Built upon other’s hard working backs

But I’m now aware of many new facts

As others are hanging from the bridge

I have doubts that you will last the day

 

In some ways, I really wish you dead

A payback to the people what is due

Between all the popinjays down here

Dressed in finery, and pale with fear

You may have hope that I’ll save you

But pimpernels are not all scarlet red