Lords Of Misrule

A caustic comment on the mess our so-called leaders are making of our world.

What do you do when your leaders don't lead?

When they govern by media manipulation?

Doesn't it just make your heart bleed,

That their idea of truth is misrepresentation?

When they buy a television network,

To promulgate their lies,

Then resort to wet work,

To shore up their alibis,

Their lack of credibility with their knee-jerk

Should come as no surprise.

When the supposedly different parties,

All sing the same self-serving song,

And there are no more red and blue smarties,

Something is very clearly wrong.

Is it any wonder

So many choose not to vote?

When a crime is passed off as a blunder,

It sticks in the common man's throat.

Corruption is so endemic,

It's no longer worthy of note.

The politicians spew their polemic,

Then they turn their coat.

Disillusionment is rife,

The citizen has no redress.

Lack of representation leads to strife,

Where that goes is anyone's guess.

Did I say I had the answers?

I'm sorry to say I don't.

But if you;re looking for politicians to solve this,

I'm pretty damn sure they won't.

They are the Lords Of Misrule,

The disease, not the cure.

The jokers, the fools,

The pathologically impure.

And we elected them!

© 2018 The Iron Horseman

Author's Note

Just pointing a finger at those responsible for the mess our world is currently in!

Reviews

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Reading this, I was musing that things haven’t changed much since the medieval age, have they? Then people were sucked and looted openly by unscrupulous rulers, now we have the same stuff ongoing in the name democracy in civilised societies. At least there was more honesty then!

The power nexus is a powerful one, involving the politicians, media barons, industrialists and even opinion makers with high corruption at all its levels. It’s more evil and indestructible than anything we have ever faced. I’m afraid, common people and their votes are just a small part of greater dynamics.

You write with a lot of clarity and great, flowing rhymes. I loved it.

KittyKat

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Kitty Kat. You are absolutely right - we are the serfs in the medieval system and the presidents and prime ministers are the kings and queens oppressing us! Just substitute financial slavery (taxes) for forced labor!

[Declan]

Hot topic for me especially in Australia personally. Nice wording and flow used.

[The Iron Horseman]

I'm not surprised that you have the same problems in Oz, Declan. We have a useless wet for a Prime Minister here in Canada, the States have a megalomaniac and the UK has a complete idiot, so welcome to the club! :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Your words. Hard and true. We elected our leaders. I told people. Someone voted for men with self-greed as their goals. Powerful and worthwhile words shared my friend.
Coyote

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Coyote. Have a Happy Christmas, my friend.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome my friend.

[Chris Shaw]

What a great write, message so well conveyed. I do believe this may be the first of yours I have read, so I am delighted to come across a quality poem. It's not just your side of the pond that has this problem, we have a fair share of it ourselves. Politicians elected to do a job who then decide they know better and the electorate are too stupid to know what they voted for. Maybe we should have another referendum because it didn't go the way we planned it.? What sort of message does that give out for democracy? A powerful write. Thank you and all good wishes.

Chris

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Chris, for this wonderful review. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[Chris Shaw]

Many thank yous, and Merry Christmas also to you and yours.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Clever, biting, on-point title and poem my friend. Every line here is a sharply and masterfully honed diatribe against the pompous megalomaniacs in power now. I love the movement, fierceness and the power of your words and rhyme. The “Lords of Misrule” they truly are. And the last line Is the brilliant kicker. Bravo Iron Horseman- your point is well-made!

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you very much for this great review, Annette. I think your 'pompous megalomaniacs' sums them up in a nutshell!
Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, my friend.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

We have a bad-tempered child at the wheel of government. Your poem is spot-on and honest my friend. I wish you & yours wonderful Holidays too!

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you for your best wishes.
But don't lean on that bad tempered child belief too hard; I agree that his behavior is petulant, but he is far more dangerous than any child. My diagnosis is that he is a psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder. If correect, that would make him capable of absolutely anything, no matter how deranged!

[LazerRays]

Hahahaha as the saying goes "the rich only get richer" and all the rich happen to be at top (money buys followers; so much for the common folk like us for a chance) and when they get up there, their greedy noses poke into all of the other countires businesses and stir trouble. Sigh... And we pay for their actions while they throw money in the air and walk off. Theyre nothing but lying cheating cowards hiding behind benjamins and dollar bills!!!! Making the rules to own us and for their benefit! Its a pick your poison in the elections! Pick the least of the evils! And what do our taxes get them? Gold plated certificates to act like world class jerks!

[The Iron Horseman]

I couldn't agree more, my friend! We are the sheep and they are shearing us!

[LazerRays]

Yeah! Thats a perfect description!

[barleygirl]

I took a political science class in the late 1970's & the teacher described this exact mess that we are in . . . he showed it, step by step, how we were first going down this crooked path where democracy would no longer represent the people, but instead big money & big corporations. Now it's many times worse than we could've imagined. All the while we told ourselves that we were alot better off than many of the countries we go in & screw up with our military might. Oh I need to shut up now. I admire you for saying this like it's a worldwide problem . . . in many ways it is, but I tend to believe that the USA has taken this to it's most unimaginable extreme becuz of the prez that most of this country did NOT vote for. I love what you're saying but now I'm even more disappointed (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[The Iron Horseman]

Wow! What a great reaction, Margie. Like your teacher, I have been predicting this mess for a very long time, but I hate being proved right! It's even worse than I imagined. And you are right - the States are now the world leader in this as in so many other things. I think the so-called Patriot Act paved the way for the new Gestapo, re-packaged as Homeland Security. Those guys get to run roughshod over just about every one of the rights promised in your Constitution! It's all made so much easier for them now too, because of their control of the mass media.
Sorry, I'll shut up now.
Big hug to you, my friend.

[barleygirl]

Every single day I have to bolster myself against the deep revulsion I feel . . . my upbeat writings are my utter refusal to become the dark t**d that's been shat upon us . . . as so many do *sigh!*

[The Iron Horseman]

I know what you mean. It would be so very easy to drown in the morass! But you, my friend, glow like a light in the dark. Remember my motto: Never give up.

[Einstein Noodle]

lots of blame to go around isn't there ;( ... idiot that i am i will hold to hope .. and once the elections are over ... they are over ... i don't listen to any main stream news .. radio news and live coverage of House and Senate activities are where i go ... i don't believe anything on-line at all ... i vote for the one that is promising to do things i agree with ... then i pray for them .. whoever is elected ... what they do certainly effects everyone ... i think it is more than just our leaders, however ... i must include those who slant the "news" and have no opposing views presented in the "commentary" programs ... and us ... who allow "passion" to be whipped into mindless acceptance and rude, vulgar and many times violent behavior ... spewing hate, innuendo and all the slanted truths believed ... pitiful ... OK .. i think me blood pressure is up ... going to go take a couple of my natural herb Valerian ;) nice rant my friend .. emotive to the teeth .. has very easy rhythm ... i like the use of line, space and font .. it all works
E.

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Noodle Monster! I love your rant in response, too. It does make you feel totally powerless, doesn't it? And it is no better here in Canada - our politicians are as spineless and two-faced those in the States. You have a psychopathic halfwit for a president and we have a gutless wimp for a prime minister! Fun, isn't it! :(
(Demented cackle here!)

[Einstein Noodle]

maybe they should have children together bruuuuuuuuuahahahaha! ... seriously tho .. i does make me feel helpless ... and frustrated and angry ... none of it good at all ... a big reason i LOVE my Faith ;)

[Onlyme]

History repeating it's over and over again. The rich ruling us all. And the masses being falls. Great poem. And televisions and radio shows are a great way for us to get fooled by their lies exactly.

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Dawn.

[Ghost writer]

I usually don't like political poems but this one's very true and I actually like it a lot, good job

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, my Freaky friend. Strangely enough, I am not a political person, but things have deteriorated to the point where politicians have become so loathsome that I feel it is necessary for someone to shine a light into their creepy little dark corners!

[Ghost writer]

Well put, I agree

[Paul Bell]

You have the same problem in America as we have in Britain.
Crap politicians who take the money but aren't up to the job.
But heah, you've got a caravan heading your way. The military on standby to blow them away.
We're still trying to get out of Europe whilst the bloody liberals are trying to keep us in.
It's a mad world we live in.

[The Iron Horseman]

Blowing right past the fact that I am in Canada, not America, (thank god, given the Trump menace), I totally agree. Politicians are the same incompetent, lying ne'er do wells everywhere! As for your Brexit problem, ain't it strange how those elected representatives subvert the democratic process whenever it suits them? :)

[Paul Bell]

Mind you, pretty boy isn't any better.
Don't you panic a bit living next door to trump.

[The Iron Horseman]

I agree with you - the pretty little rich boy is as wet as a yard of pump water! And yes, the idea of living next door to the magalomaniac who is likely to start WW3 is very disturbing. Mind you, if he gets started nowhere is going to be safe!