AUSTERITY BY ANOTHER NAME

The cruel pen
Of desperate power
Set to sign
From an ivory tower
A written decree
Signed off by a king
That will surely
Begin to kill.

Not directly
Not face to face
The cowards way
By signatures laced
Upon government letters
In ominous envelopes
Sent to the vunerable
Who have no hope.

The disabled
Those hanging on
With mental illness
The purge has begun
Those on hospital
Waiting lists
Those with chronic pain
An endless twist.

Austerity which
Takes so many lives
Under another name
Drenched in lies
Prime minister
Cabinet 
Controlled mps
Those to die
Merely falling leaves.