Nature’s Way

Your rose is withered and forlorn

Can nothing save its blackened thorn?

I recommend a cure that will -

Selected works of Kim Jong Il!

A reading every noon and night

Will radically change its plight

And where before the petals fell

New buds will soon begin to swell

Iranian Uranium

Is best for your geranium

And if it’s still a little sad

An hour of Ahmedinajad

Recorded live in Isfahan

And via Turkish Kurdistan,

Is guaranteed to bring it round

And make a difference most profound

But for an even healthier glow

Try ‘Hizbollah’s Magic Multigrow’

Resist the gardener’s common urge

To fault each autocratic purge

In countries whose political slants

Will likely cheer your garden plants

For nature is, beneath the sun

At root, totalitarian

To those who loathe the scorpions whip

And criticise dictatorship

In Pyongyang, Burma or Khartoum

I say…‘Let a hundred flowers bloom’!