hope – Andrew Watkins

A Poem

Clearly thinking,

or thinking clearly;

Orange the future

can be!

Was there a time, say

When ‘in there’, was said to it

in maths and English?

In worlds of extremes
There is Charles Babbage and there
is what is cabbage

Into time not out

That some will survive cleans you

machine coding one

Your ill-deserved luck
is coming to an end
better start cryin’

We didn’t make it

We failed to collaborate

There’s still tomorrow

1,2,3,4,5
And with terrible certainty
6,7,8,9

Liquid mercury

Before I have time to hope…

the temperature rise

It fills me with hope
and yet it fills me with fear
How will I get near?

Land of last hope gone
Make it quick cause the pains gone
Small mercies come fast