Budget Event Horizon
The vast black hole into which the nation’s
Wealth is being irresistibly drawn
Is unstable capitalism, grown
Through ever expanding depredations
Until it has consumed the entire world.
The gravity of its profit hunger
Is such, well-meaning policies no longer
Escape oblivion. Intentions hurled
Into its maw are destined to never
Be seen again. The exchequer must yield,
For the red box proves a pathetic shield:
Fiscal escape is a doomed endeavour.
All promises the chancellor made are hushed,
Fond hopes for change relentlessly crushed.
D. A.