Help Help

Help Help

Help Help the Paranoids are after me
They follow me every where I go
I must be a threat and will not let me be
They want to know everything that I know

Help Help the paranoids are listening
They are tapping all of my calls
I hear the clicks and their whispering
And catch them watching me from behind the walls

Help Help the Paranoids are watching
They try to catch everything that I do
Checking out all the people I have been seeing
And opening every letter I am sent too

Help Help the Paranoids are searching
They think they will find something in my trash
Not liking the free speech I have been preaching
They have been trying to plant a stash

Help Help the Paranoids are worried
They don’t like the books that I have read
It does not matter that they are well published
They don’t want thoughts of peace and liberty in my head

Help Help the Paranoids are getting scarred
They don’t like the beard that I have grown
Or that I wear a beanie on my head
And can’t handle the things I said on the phone

Help Help the Paranoids are freaking
They know that I made a complaint
About the phone tapes and their peaking
I was told that it made their boss faint

Help Help the Paranoids have gone crazy
They are sticking cameras up everywhere
I think their minds must be a bit hazy
The look in their eyes is just a constant stare

Help Help the Paranoids have lost the plot
They haven’t noticed while they have been watching me
Someone else has stolen all the country has got
And they will get away with it Scott free

Help Help the Paranoids are hiding
From the fact that they are all going mad
Ordered around by Politicians who have been stealing
The House the sink and everything that we had

12.08am 28th October 2008 AEST
Copy right Gregory John O’Flaherty

  • Sally Omar

    Sally Omar

    Greg, Absolutely fantastic!!!!!! They are here too!!!!! Hugs, Sally xxxxoooo

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thanks Sally XXX

  • sunism

    sunism

    Hope you aren’t as paranoid in real life. It would be so exhausting. Ask someone you trust to be responsible for making sure you are safe. Hope this poem is fiction (with some truth in it) otherwise you’ll go mad.

  • sunism

    sunism

    I was wondering what happened to all the money too. I think finance is tied up with confidence, once the banks & major corporations loaned out too much money & couldn’t get it back their confidence went down the gurgoler with the devalued money.

  • Gregory John O... replied

    So true. Not much we can do until confidence returns. Thanks for your comment…

  • Tom Broderick IPA

    Tom Broderick IPA

    cool greg. tom

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thanks Tom

  • montdragon

    montdragon

    They must be Republicans…they are everywhere and make no apologies for what they steal…and “lie baby lie” with a wink and a grin….they are everywhere.

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thanks Montdragon…scarry isn’t it !!

  • Ushna Sardar

    Ushna Sardar

    outstanding Greg my friend!!! huggles

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thankyou Ushna, appreciate your comments XXXX

  • H M Bascom

    H M Bascom

    This is your best poem to date! Fantastic writing Gregory!

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thanks Helen

  • Sam Dantone

    Sam Dantone

    Thank you Gregory,

    This an excellent examination.

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thanks Sam, glad you like it

  • Linda Ridpath

    Linda Ridpath

    absolutely love your style …. and your subject ....

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thanks Linda

  • Elizium

    Elizium

    Fantastic writing!!....with power comes paranoia…

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Thanks Elizium….. and if you should question the power, you get their paranoia

  • Elizium

    Elizium

    Very True! ....and then if you question their paranoia, do you then get the power? Could be an extremely viscious circle…

  • Gregory John O... replied

    Then politics is just one big round and around the same thing again and again…

  • Elizium

    Elizium

    It’s the political loop, the noose that tightens itself around our necks!! But there is always a ‘loophole’ where questions are asked…and your piece asks all the right questions!!!

  • Delphine de Noire

    Delphine de Noire

    Brilliant! “Just because I’m paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me!” ;-)

    Mx

  • Gregory John O... replied

    LOL… thanks for the comment… I’m not paranoid either….even when thay are at the door or I hear click click click on the phone….

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