It Won’t Be As Bad

It won’t be as bad as you think.
It’s going to be worse,
much worse. Compared to the bad
that you expected once,
unimaginable.
Too late is long gone.
Look back with longing at
the lies they told us then –
in the best of times.
Promises and bribes
have emptied our accounts;
the rats are in the roof;
a leader no one likes
running scared, not from
office but from us.
 

                    Summer 2009

Ian Harrow

in collection, The Situation, 2010, Dark Age Press,
ISBN 978-0-9560198-2-0