Post Referendum

Dr Anne and Lois have just returned from  a visit to an exhibition of contemporary art.  The title was German Angst and Social Motions.  It was all very poignant in the aftermath of the Scottish Referendum.  

Dr Anne has taken the exhibits to illustrate her feelings at this time of missed opportunities.  This poem was used in the German Angst section.  

'Once more it is night and we watch. 

People of our country see 

Us, it's guardians

Watching

Listening

Full of goodwill towards the well intended citizen.'

'But

He who, in order to know

What danger threatens, reads papers,

Each day at breakfast indignant 

Over some distant disaster,

Each day informed of what happened the day before,

He finds it hard to perceive what is happening now

Beneath his own roof.'

'Many things may start a fire

But not every fire that starts

Is the work of inexorable fate

Much can be avoided

By common sense.'

'He who fears change 

More than disaster

What can he do to forestall

The threatening disaster.'