Gordon was the heavyweight
The serious one the scholar
Tony was a welterweight
Who advanced to make top dollar
Gordon’s father the clergyman
Taught Gordon how to preach
Gordon in turn taught Tony
How to make a speech
Gordon knew his politics
Tony knew the people
Crunch time came for leadership
It was Tony on the steeple
Britain blossomed in their blaze
Meteor and comet
Young men in their heyday
Tories couldn’t stop it
Then came 9/11
America in pain
Rose up swearing vengeance
Stomping round again
Tony couldn’t see it
Thought he understood
Threw in his lot with Bush and Co
Opened up the flood
Since we lost the Empire
We’ve still been chasing power
Holding US shirt tails
Refusing to be lower
To hell with chasing ‘greatness’
Let it be understood
The greatest thing in all this world
Is simply to be good
Brian Fahy
5 October 2021
Erris Poetry 