people tell me
someone
is confident and strong
all I see is a host of problems
that most likely happened when they were young

when tony blair –
lied about the iraq war
and claimed,
god said he was right
we realised that ‘new labour’
the third way, was just tory light

the tiny boat
on an unforgiving sea
the boat is fine
but life tacks,
and chooses the lines

hello,
can you see the night sky?
the moon sits low
and stars smile back at you

i should have written her a poem
she could actually understand
and i should have remembered –
all the lines
in that sitcom that we wrote
does she now remember green park?
and how that dream went up in comedy smoke