Coronation Conflict

My family are right wing

Royalists

A lot of my friends are left wing

Republicans

So where does an indecisive girl like myself stand?

I’ve been reading the papers from every angle

Left wing and right wing press

I listened to Prince William’s speech and I understood every word

I’ve always liked Prince William

But we’ve never met

Yes I was at school with

Princess Catherine

We played hockey together

And know each other to a certain extent

Pippa and I were both in the same year at Marlborough

We were close friends

Both super sporty

She won the all round

Scholarship

And I won a runner’s up

Prize for it

I was unwell during common entrance

So missed certain exams

My house mistress

Said I could be head girl

In my first year at Marlborough

That was a lot to stomach

I was asked to show the headmaster,

Ed Gould, around our house

People I know know both

Prince William and Princess Catherine

The inner circle

But where do I truly stand?

People are hungry

People are dying

People can’t afford to heat

Their homes

People can’t afford their bills

People are struggling, really

Struggling

Charity is NOT ENOUGH

We need systemic change

We need equality

We need better leadership

My mother said when I was younger I could be a Prime Minister

But that was before my

Diagnosis

Some people aren’t allowed to get involved with politics

Like The Royal Family

Some people disengage and

Don’t vote

But as a woman or lady

I have to vote, I need to vote

I do want to be political

But I’m a leader

I’ve never been a follower

Where’s my leader?

I’ve voted Green

I’ve voted Lib Dem

I’ve voted Labour

After everything the suffragettes

Endured

I cannot not vote

Where’s our apology for slavery?

Where are our reparations?

When will we begin to take responsibility for our British Empire

Crimes?

I have always had a problem with jewellery

As Sting would say ‘that’s not the shape of my heart’

So how would I feel wearing the weight of that crown?

I would have more than a

Sore neck

We’ve stripped mother nature’s ocean and land of her

Jewels and crystals

Her beauty

We’ve worn them and

Paraded them around

Do you see tribes, warriors or natives doing that?

We have so much to learn

Or more accurately, so much to

Remember

Maybe I should remind you

Because I’m a very old soul

And I’ve been around for

Millennia

Once, the land was not

Divided

We used to be in tune with nature and the seas and ask a tree if we could cut it down

Our medicine

There were no countries or passports, no borders or guns

No chemicals

Yes there was violence and

Savagery

From apes to cavemen

There has always been a need for

Survival

But pre civilisation

There were no hospitals

There were no clocks

There were no prisons

There was death

But there was no population crisis

No climate crisis

After Pangea separated

And the dinosaurs were

Wiped out

There was a new dawn

The wisdom of the land in the East

Egypt, Africa, India, The Greeks, The Romans

Socrates, Hippocrates, Plato and Aristotle

We’ve learnt a lot from the stars, the plants, the animals

Let’s remind ourselves

So to now

What to do?

About the Commonwealth

About the inequality

About the trillionaires

About the people without running

Water

About the starving

About the slave labour making your sugar, picking your tea, making your clothes

I know what I would do if I was you

There is A LOT TO DO

So please act, ACT PROACTIVELY

I won’t just be watching

I’ll be DOING!

Written on 8.5.23

I didn’t publish it when I wrote it as the title explains why but felt like now is the right time to publish it on my blog.