POETRY | SATIRE

Decision-Makers

A poem on the oddities of life’s lawmakers

Image by Claire Thibault taken from Pexels

I certainly couldn’t
make all of these decisions.
I find it hard to decide what’s for
breakfast, lunch or what to
watch on TV;
so many choices.

So thank God there’s people
to make big decisions —
decisions I certainly couldn’t make —
and make them so well.
They ask for our opinions but
thank God
they make all the decisions.

Who could make these hard decisions?
Men of strength, courage and power,
I imagine.
Men of honour, men of the old times,
gentlemen with less gentle
thoughts.

Generals ordering soldiers to
charge down battlefields of no man’s land.
They must know whose land is whose.
How clever and strategic they
must be — to keep track of
all these wars.
Better they know of the world,
than you and me.

High intellectuals in Ivory Towers rise
higher than what they can reach
from such a height.
Intelligent they are, to put themselves
at such a height
we cannot
reach.