Can anyone recommend any really good poems that are along the lines of If by Rudyard Kipling?
Here is Benjamin Zephaniah’s version: What If If you can keep your money when governments about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust your neighbour when they trust not you And they be very nosy too; If you can await the warm delights of summer Then summer comes and goes with sun not seen, And pay so much for drinking water Knowing that the water is unclean. If you seek peace in times of war creation, And you can see that oil merchants are to blame, If you can meet a pimp or politician, And treat those two impostors just the same; If you cannot bear dis-united nations And you think this new world order is a trick, If you’ve ever tried to build good race relations, And watch bad policing mess your work up quick. If you can make one heap of all your savings And risk buying a small house and plot, Then sit back and watch the economy inflating Then have to deal with the negative equity you’ve got; If you can force your mind and body to continue When all the social s
