Cross Purposes
Polling stations are closed, ballot boxes
Collected, votes totalled, winners declared.
Capitalism has again been spared
Serious challenge as suffrage locks us
Once more into the status quo. The cross
Has been the mark of illiterates,
Also the spot where buried treasure waits
To be revealed. Votes are precious because
Potentially they could well change the way
The world is now to what it could become,
Fashioned for the benefit of all, not just some.
That’ll be a red-letter election day,
When all the old parties of left and right
Are voted down as the workers unite.
D. A.