FATHERHOOD

My heart leaps up when I behold
   Bush bomb-bursts in my sky:
So was it when my life began,
So will it be when I'm a man,
So be it when I shall grow old -
   As others die.
Blair's Child is father of the Man:
   And he will wish each day to be
Revenged on greed and humbug's piety.

                    (Apologies to William Wordsworth)