It’s the person that we mourn
The human being
She’s been part of the furniture
Always always seen
The Nation’s granny Lilibet
Reverence for age
But when it’s over brace yourself
Time to turn the page
We are quite a troubled nation
Run by gents and toffs
And a scallywag prime minister
Whose lately been seen off
We are not what we’re cracked up to be
Though decent folk abide
Time for some humility
And less much less of pride
Our politics still reeks
Of aristocrats and plebs
The Tory landed gentry
The labour union reds
You can see it in their attitudes
The posh boys and the rest
And change it comes so slowly
Then suddenly with zest
Brian Fahy
11 September 2022
Erris Poetry 