Haven’t written anything of my own for ages. I was really struggling for inspiration and feeling a bit desperate, so I clung on to the only thing I could think of: todays UK National alert text. Sorry I’m advance but I needed to write something, anything.

Poised for an alert,

A whole nation’s attention,

Waiting for the tone.

Or those who refuse,

Will they break at last minute,

Turn it on to see.

And those who worry,

Who see a government ploy,

Obedient still.

And those secret phones,

That family don’t know of,

Set to be exposed.

As for me, I think,

It’ll be touch and go as,

The phone’s about to…