Elizabeth Haslam

I live in a beautiful secret tranquil place,
Alone, with wonderful thoughts I face.
No high seas can trouble my calm inner self
No one will enter, even by stealth.
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‘No problem, ‘ I am assured.
But no, I am not assured at all.
In fact I am more fearful than before.
How often I have heard those words so sure.
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'Its mine its mine' screams the child to another.
'No it's mine all mine'screams the other.
'This country is mine all mine' screams the idiot child.
'If you don't do what I say, you will all be exiled'.
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I prey for our planet to be peopled, by purple people.
Colour all the same, the young and strong and feeble;
The black white and green.
How amazing that would be.
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Ministers why are you still leading your nation?
The poor in the land are no higher in their station.
The children are not, getting a better education.
The country is not, so secure anymore;
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We are the evil demons of the world,
Death and disaster at the world we hurl.

Dispatched by the devil, to maim and kill;
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