Sunday, 31 August 2025

Red flags

 


I don’t associate with that flag.

Not when it is being used for hate.

It could be any rag,

A faded bloodstain

from where you tried in vain

to wipe clean the pain

inflicted by your hands,

but a stain always remains.

No scrubbing will get it clean.

Our history painted in red from veins

of those you thought lesser than you.

You have a superiority complex

over a tiny stretch of green

on a big sphere of blue,

I see the whole world

and I see the beauty of it all.

Why not also take in the view?

 

I don’t associate with St George.

I don’t see our conquests as good.

Instead, I have a heart and will raise my voice

when I see that bad that it does.

I was born here without choice,

just circumstance and fate.

I don’t see that as reason

to wave a flag as a way to provoke hate.

I only see the hurt and suffering of

our fellow human beings

throughout our past.

The blood which you thought

was weaker than yours

held more love than your weak

hearts ever could.

 

You don’t speak for us all

when you talk of deportation

and supposed British values.

The only British values I see

are causing hate and misery,

theft of other lands and priceless items.

Whilst saying they aren't welcome to stay.

And these are values

I don’t want associated with me.

We need more kindness

in humankind. More love, more unity,

not a wall to divide.

 

I don’t see national pride

in supporting any isms,

in closing our doors to those in need,

to watching on as people plead,

begging for some help

or a supposed better way of life.

All I see is an aching chasm of hate,

and it’s getting wider every day,

because too many sheep

listen to the lies the bigots say.

Put that passion into love instead,

the things we are good at,

the humour, the music,

the art that floods our streets.

Not into making

other people feel lesser

for wanting to share it all with you.

 

So, fuck the flags, and fuck our borders.

Fuck Farage and fuck Keir Starmer.

Fuck those Tories in Labour clothes,

none of these will ever get my vote.

In fact, fuck all the right leaning war loving

shit stirrers, and anyone who follows them

like lemmings leaping blindly

over the white cliffs of dover,

I’ll be here enjoying life,

with my fellow humans,

not demons in disguise.

 

 




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