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[aid] => mick
[title] => Empathy Prevails
[time] => 2017-11-14 19:05:52
[hometext] => Today, in Australia, we had the final counting of a nationwide survey on Same Sex Marriage. I wrote this poem after the percentages were read out.
[bodytext] => The tension was high, felt near and far from East Coast to West, Australians’ listened hard. For the country was tasked, tasked with a job, A job to make all equal, not just rights for one mob. As the seconds approached, 10am the deadline, many a person hoped it would pass this time. For if Man love a Man, or Woman Love A woman, it’s none of our business not me, not you or the institution The time, it was reached, The survey, read out, and Tension so thick, you could cut it, no doubt. Slowly he read as stats were explained then the time was upon us, EQUALITY WAS GAINED! 62 to 38, the result were in favour the job had been done. The yes vote had won! Now we must wait, wait on the powers that be to do the right thing, by all and sundry. legalize SSM, We demand it of you, in our democracy, the majority’s voiced its view. So Malcolm and the crew, We hand this task to you, And we hope you do right, but For now, I bid you, Ado. By Terry West Copyright 2017 [comments] => 0 [counter] => 90 [topic] => 4 [informant] => Redwest802 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => news )
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