Perchance Poem by Dave Dunn

Perchance

The day will come when I do not
Rise from my bed but stay in that spot
Perchance to dream if not to wake
A heavy slumber I will never shake

Some say that science may soon bring
Such longer life as yet unseen
Two hundred years with health unchecked
May be their goal but should we expect

The splitting of the human race in two
The sub class just like me and you
The wealthy buying decades to find
Some other ways to fleece mankind

For sure it wont be for those on tick
Their present way of life will stick
Live for the moment, die for the cause
Of fighting some ludicrous wars

No point in fixing you to live all time
In your job you may perish any time
Just a small selected band
With so much wealth they own the land

And by that I do not mean their homes
But all the countries where they roam
Our mortgages give them power indeed
We're trapped with them until we're freed

But by that time our age is such
We will not trouble them too much
We'll trundle round the shops and chat
About the smallest this and that

Brown days of muddled thinking mask
The real purpose of their task
The papers fly some silly tales
To draw attention to the man from Wales

Anything to bury deep
The truth until we all do sleep
Perchance to dream if not to wake
A heavy slumber we will never shake

Rhumour
April 27th 2008