A guilt for dreaming

Democracy

Lying slowly dying

Draining away

In a gutter of lies

Snide jibes and diatribes

Populism

Couched in nationalism

Portrayed as patriotism

Perestroika

And glasnost

Ghosts of history

Where once worldly

Right-thinking politicians

Two Presidents

Dared to dream

Of a world at peace

In harmony

Flying the flag of freedom

To earth’s furthest far flung

Reach

In place of strife

Co-operation

And in every nation

An equal chance of

A decent life

Where a human right

Is not a flight

Of a fanciful

Imagination

Instead we’re given

Self-interest driven

Choices

By narrow right wing

Reactionary

Voices

Espousing greed hatred

Bigotry

Feeding on

And feeding off

Derision for

Division of

All that binds

Human minds

In common cause

Me with you

You with me

Brother with brother

Sister with sister

Friend with friend

Neighbour with neighbour

Nation with nation

Old with young

Young with old

Alas the times are changing

When we were younger

We had so many dreams

But now that we’ve grown older

The world has grown much colder

The door to dreams is closing

As hate smiling through the darkness

Threatens to leave us dreamless

With a guilt for dreaming

Note: Last verse inspire by the late David Bowie's classic track "Time"