The Iron Lady

In your final earthly moment

Before you breathe no more

Will you cast your failing mind back

To all that went before?

Will you think of all the hardship

The lives you tore apart

Will you finally show compassion

Do you have that in your heart?

Will you ask for God’s forgiveness

For the horror and the pain

Will you seek your absolution

A last chance to explain?

Or will you stick your neck out

So oft as times gone by

Will you sneer at all your critics

Look on as innocents die?

And as darkness falls and spittle dries

In your cracked and acrid throat

When your tongue’s so badly swollen

that you begin to choke

Will you beam and leer and tell us all

That this lady’s not for turning

As the devil rides and lights the spark

To get his warmest fire’s a burning

Jones (2010)

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