Hippo Crates

Governments ignore their pleas
For funding never meets their needs
Short on numbers, under siege
Yet swore to make you better

Swapping hearts and squelching pox
Round the clock they never stop
There's good and bad a bit like cops
All swore to make you better

No-one questions the dedication
To years of study and privation
Required to reach the lofty station
That swore to make you better

Save someday health gets ripped asunder
You soon might well begin to wonder
If you aren't just a number
They swore to make you better

One more ticked off this case is closed
Another patient diagnosed
Take four of these and one of those
We swore to make you better

Now hear me Doc I'm less than thrilled
To be simply gobbling pills
Prescribing drugs takes little skill
You swore to make me better

Blank looks cross frowns a roll of eyes
I will speak up don't act surprised
Despite the fact I well realize
Who swore to make me better

We know it's tough and time is short
But those you see are sick and fraught
So treat with kindness, act with thought
I swear it makes it better

© Ahealy2005

H2 Whoah

They're gonna charge us more for water
In the land of constant rain
But I don't remember any such hike
When I lived in bone dry Spain
They're gonna make us all have meters
Or prepay cards for those who can't
And make bathing unacceptable
Just like they outlawed watering plants
They're citing global warming
For the drought they say's to blame
Though their bonus reservoirs stayed full
Whilst they failed to fix the drains
Yet they'll wring their hands like Pilate
Come our yearly plague of floods
It was just an "Act of God" they'll say
With that well-worn corporate shrug
So only flush but once a day
And attend to dripping taps
You might also stockpile oxygen
Cos we'll soon be paying for that

© Ahealy2006