The Roads

Our Road is like a Skating Rink!

The Financial situation is on the brink!

November really is ending harsh!

Frosty Roads and a Frozen Marsh!

If kids go there, they'd sink!

It's the 21st Anniversary!

Dad's death due to mercenaries!

The Midwinter then was really bleak!

It was in the Middle of the Week!

No longer with a Farming Bursary!

31 Years of terrible Choices!

Can I make things change?

I hear conflicting voices!

I sealed my fate, so it seems!

By being too early to work in a Team!

My Lord hasn't forsaken me!

My history hasn't mistaken me!

Look forward, just for Today!

For it is the only known way!

My recovery is making me!

Show me a Child of 7!

I'll tell you if he's a man from Heaven!

But when I was 11!

I was in secondary School!

A whole new level!

What can I do when I drive?

Even when I take it easy, it will still slip and slide!

But I maintained a level of personal pride!

I haven't shunted myself onto the side!

Today the Road is slippy!

When it thaws, the street will be dripping!

Nothing done in the Town!

To go there would make me a clown!

The rural roads need some gritting!

Wealth

Your Health is your Wealth!

But when you're trying to pay the Bills,

You're taxed through stealth!

What on earth is going wrong?

Three Years Ago the Economy was so strong!

Some one is after us!

A lower Power!

A Financial Monster!

That seeks to grab and devour!

I was for a while rich!

But finding work at this time?

It left me in the ditch!

Hoping for a better life was what I seek!

But my Credit Card left me fiscally Weak!

Seeking a new salvation!

From outside manipulation!

Could we ever hope and pray,

About what we can change Today?

Can't believe what's happened the Nation!

Hopes of European Peace Dashed!

Through control of Public Savings Cash!

Now there could be war!

One like which has never been seen before!

The Power Brokers that be!

Have set a Monster Free!

Can no longer seek the Death Penalty!

What happened to you and me?

King flopped on Double 4!

But Money earned like never before!

That could've been my Dad!

What a life we could've had!

Money Talks!

Which was why MJ walked!

Before his Death!

He took Iron Lung Breaths!

His Estate Earnings no longer baulks!

Save my money!

Because the effect isn't funny!

Look forward to Christmas while you can!

Then wait for the Easter Bunny!

Electric

The electric's off.

You're thrown off course.

But the inclemency outside?

That's 100 times worse.

Gran demands the torch.

Over in her Bedroom.

The Laptop is still on.

Thanks to the battery.

Shut it down, or it will go 'boom'.

Your Brother entertains you.

Without the electricity mains.

Old Shadow Puppets.

From a world before Muppets.

Should we switch on the generator?

Gran says no.

The electric will come on later.

Then we phoned friends.

Thank God for Mobiles.

But not the iPhone trend.

Their electric's okay.

But they weren't round our way.

Gran phoned a Neighbour.

About NIE's Labour.

She's still waiting so patient,

My Brother's agitation's blatant.

We rang our own handy man.

To switch on the generator.

To drive then takes a hardy man.

But we didn't have the key.

To switch on the generator.

I felt less manly.

But then the light went back on.

The black out was 90 Minutes long.

So every thing's now fine and dandy.

Thanks to the NIE repair.

It seemed so handy.

This was a night to remember.

Thursday 11th November.