They say that power corrupts
Indeed it does
We use our force on others
To get our way
The Plantation of Ulster
The Highland Clearances
Left Ireland fraught
Scotland empty
For landowners and sheep
And no right of way
So Scottish independence I’d like to see
And let England be England
A new identity
And all the world keeps changing
Things don’t stay the same
And America the mighty
Must learn to play the game
John Wayne and cowboy films
Flooded the post war world
And American tentacles
Spread out everywhere
We cannot move for missiles
The US rules the roost
This has to change
It is not defence
It’s an aggressive nuisance
We Brits we played the empire game
But we had to lose it all
Give back what we had conquered
It wasn’t ours to call
Now Putin fires a salvo
You’re an existential threat
Nato – you’ve served your purpose
But fear is ruling yet
Brian Fahy
2 July 2022
+I watched the John Pilger film, The Coming War (2016) and learned about what the US did in the Marshall Islands after World War Two. I also did not realise just how much the US covers the globe with its military might. The UK has been happy to go along on America’s shirt tails, enjoying the sense of security that it brings. And from our island home we make brave noises about funding the war effort in Ukraine, when what is needed is a settlement now.
Erris Poetry 