Referendum-de-dum-de-dum

Some think that Salmond’s rather fishy

Others that Sturgeon’s a tasty dishy

If Alistair’s a Darling (now and then)

It’s clearly time to pen

a thought or two upon the vex-ed choice

that on one day we can all voice.

It’s ‘Aye’ or ‘Nae’ – it’s really easy

So why’s this choice make us so queasy?

Can it be that some who stand

And talk about this lovely land

That all agree is fair (but breezy)

Seem to have found a new dimension

Where true and false get equal mention

‘The Heart’ gets talked of more and more

So maybe ‘999’s the score

As off to A&E we rush

To get our bodies through the crush

of folk with ECGs to get

And have their voting worries met

So hearts can pulse at slower rate

Whilst Heads get back to dominate

But can our Heads get what they need

From politicians and their creed

Of truth and numbers that make sense

Or do we, baffled, just dispense

with all the guff that’s shoved at us

by the Great & (maybe) Good

And just tell them ‘Shove it, Bud’

So what’s to do for good and all?

Our children will take rise or fall

Not us old folk – we’re fine as such

The young and those with not so much

are those who’ll get the lion’s share

Of good or bad and have to care

Of life and all that future holds

The ups, the downs, the warms, the colds

So do we vote or walk away

Do we take part or at home stay

Do we rebuke both Red and Blue

Who really don’t have any clue

(As neither do those of other hue)

Or do we take a near-blind punt

and put ourselves out at the front

of those who just take all they hear

and put a cross and hold their fear

There’s them as wants to be apart

from those they think don’t let them start

to be themselves and do their best

at life and love and all the rest

And then there’s them as don’t want change

It worries nerves with future strange

When continuity is king

and promises seem empty ring

So tell the ones who (think they) know

That WE’RE the ones who make the show

what it is for them to run

And get together from now on

Whate’er our views before the vote

Whate’er we said, whate’er we wrote

Howe’er we see our neighbours face

Howe’er we think about our place

and make our land be free of doubt

and learn to work out what our clout

REALLY can be once it’s done,

And work TOGETHER – ALL AS ONE.