#98 Remember - The Fifth

Remember remember the 5th of November

Remember remember the 5th of November

Remember remember the 5th of November

But why?



See I remember the fireworks from my childhood

I remember the colours making me feel good

I remember the bonfire and the crackling wood

I remember the sparklers, but not the spark I should



See way back when, kicking it 17th century style

There'd be dissatisfaction, there had been for a while

People were screaming, every citizen a potential revolutionary

This unsettled the royal and his loyal powers that be



So they hatched a plot. The decided to conspire

That a plot would exist to set parliament on fire

But it would be foiled. There'd be no danger

Just the death of someone not them, an unknown stranger.



So the plan went forth on the fifth, and low and behold it succeeded

They'd got the scapegoat they so desperately needed

They took the luckless man, and set him alight

So is this what we should remember on bonfire night?



Nah. Not in my reckoning. You see just one king along

Nothing had been solved. Everything was still wrong.

Despite the best intentions, the best laid plans

The mice in power were thwarted man for man



Dissatisfaction can be abated. It can be delayed

But if the root is not tackled you may end up dismayed

So I remember this night as the great deadline extension

That still led to no cure. Nor further prevention.



That if you are granted a second chance

Be aware of the route down which you should advance

Don't trust the hand of lady luck so blindly

Remember the second time she might not deal you so kindly.

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