Steaming Full Speed Into Disaster Poem by Terence George Craddock

like the Captain of the Titanic
the desire the need to be first
the fastest to make their party line

the White Star Line stand out
to be the first most important
the most famous to rule to dominate

can mean steaming full speed ahead
into a known iceberg field thinking
their ship their party policy is unsinkable

until the moment fatal
when they strike an iceberg
suffer excessive unsustainable

sinkable damage
even then denial
the refusal

to accept
the responsibility
of an immanent

impending disaster means
an SOS to save our souls is
delayed too long sent out

to late
the cost
in lives

when the captain party leaders
sink their ship is devastating
body corpus unsinkable is sunk


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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