Silly Season

 

 

 

Silly season was the season

Usually at Christmas time

But with the advent of COVID

It’s always on one’s mind.

 

The PM referred to it

In these most recent times

And with an election in the air

It’s not easy to confine.

 

I consider her quite shrewd

Yet I was baffled by her call,

It’s like let’s go back to the polls

And see where the chips fall.

 

A calculated gamble, I guess,

But maybe not so,

She must be knowing something

That you and I don’t know.

 

Divisiveness and silliness

Appeared to be hand in hand

And it is the PM’s endeavour

To block any opposing plan.

 

I really don’t have a problem

With so-called strategic thinking

But an election in silly season

Gives me a weird feeling.

 

 

Exercising one’s voting right

Speaks to a responsibility

But in this silly season it follows

It’s the voters that are silly.

 

How responsible is the PM

To call an election now?

If she could convince me otherwise

To her wishes I would bow.

 

What does she expect

Particularly in this silly season?

Silliness from silly people no doubt

That are void of reason.

 

Was she therefore silly?

Her ringing of the election bell?

Regardless of the outcome

Who’d be able to tell?

 

Can a silly person judge another?

Or cast a responsible vote?

I dare say not if he is silly,

This would be good to note.

 

 

Silly people are impulsive

And hence impulsively they act,

If there was a divide before

A greater is coming back.

 

Was the PM impulsive?

Was hers an impulsive act?

No doubt we’ll know on the 19^th

But then we can’t go back.

 

All this might sound silly

After all, it’s silly season,

Judge this poem in whatever way...

It may be void of reason.

 

Silly season is every day

By some body or some group,

So, whether ‘B’ or ‘D’ or ‘APP’,

Soon we’ll know the truth.

 

 

I believe going forward

We’ll see how silly we have been,

The present is ours to decipher;

The future is never seen.

 

Whether the PM is silly

Or those she is targeting,

I am in no position to judge

Not from where I’m sitting.

 

But we’re in the silly season

The PM would have to know,

It’s her season, it’s her call,

It is her show!

  

When silly wears off

Sound reasoning begins,

Let’s pray and hope we are better

After the results are in.

 

Stewart Russell © January 9, 2022