Momentum (Satis Shroff)

MOMENTUM (Satis Shroff)

(Subtitle: Paris is France)

Yellow vested men and women

No longer with lowered faces.

Scowling countenances,

Legs that kick down windows and doors,

Arms that life and overturn cars.

They want to be heard

For they have been ignored

By Macron and others

At the Elysee Palace

Too long.

Paris is France.

In the olde Jacobiner days it was the Bastille,

Now it’s the Champs Elysees.

Why is Paris burning?

Hope   it’ll appear in Le Monde and Figaro

Tomorrow.

A movement gathers momentum,

No time for empty speeches,

No elitare nuances.

Yellow vested men and women

Fighting against vested interests,

In Place de la Republic,

Bastille and nation.

Paris is France.

The rift in the French society

Has grown too wide.

Will someone build a bridge

Over these troubled waters of

La Grande nation?

Paris is France.

Oh, please don’t talk about Haute Cuisine,

I have problems making ends meet.

I hear shots with tear-gas.

Paris is France.

Paris the City of Love,

Now a City of Hate.

Oui, it’s the only city in the world

That protects the Freedom to Flirt

In French style;

Where women coquette with men,

Risking molestation, says Catherine Denuve.

Ah, the fire of Prometheus

Glittering in her blue Parisian eyes.

You can’t help loving Paris.

Paris is France.

©satisshroff, 2019