Versus

VERSUS

'The World versus Wall Street'

A real call to arms!

Let's hope it's a call

That improves, not alarms.

The Power of the People 

Sounds heady and grand;

The cry that inspires us?

'United we stand!'

But think back to Russia,

In the days of the Tsar,

When a well-meaning rabble

In time went too far;

When the cry 'Retribution!'

Was sounding a knell,

And the dream became, soon,

Just a Communist hell!

Let's hope all these 'Springs'

Bloom into sweet summer

And not into chaos

Or something much dumber.

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GREY ON GREY

Grey on grey, shadow on shade.

A strange unreality it made!

Turning a day which was sunny bright

Into a monochrome, dark and light.

The window behind me was filled with blue,

Yet, from this photograph, not a clue!

On the stair a shadow of me,

Looming like a monstrosity!

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