Making It New Again Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

There were constant struggles to understand
Constant struggles to explain, justify, provide hope
About how mankind came into existence
About how their own tribe came to rule
Or was dispossessed and brought to subjugation
And the necessity of revival and reassertion
About the nature of being a son and father
The dangers of desire, temptation and betrayal
And the fickle nature of women and their ways
From homeliness to divination and blood-letting
The rituals of forgetting and propitiation
Acts of sacrifice, of mortification and ritual slaughter
Of the need for valour in battle and loyalty
Of making it new again and restoring greatness
A trust in the after-life for the valiant and obedient
The chosen ones coming to the throne of judgment
Being welcomed to the resplendent halls
With a promise of everlasting heavenly ease.

All this is becoming evident once more
As we return to the ancient beliefs and ways
And tribal commitments to blood and folk.
But for some a small problem -not wanting to share
Valhalla with Sean Hannity and Steve Bannon
And if Odin has any sense, he won't either.