PTS Been There, Done That

‘[Bank of England governor Mark Carney…] discussed uncertainty and what he termed “economic post-traumatic stress disorder” among households and businesses.’ – The Guardian, 30/06/2016

Why do you complain? You were always ahead of the game:

if the whole world is yearning to go down the hole

that you’re only emerging from now, why complain?

When they suggest the gestalt’s in traumatic paralysis,

unable to act while compulsive analysis grips it,

accept: you were always ahead of the game,

if they’re going where you’ve been since August

last year, if you shudder to know all that

they’ll have to fear, then why do you complain?

You’re in on the ground floor, already embedded:

you know that it only hurts when you let it,

but you know they will, because you’re ahead of the game.

You know the flashbacks are hard to resist.

You’ve scratched calendars into the back of your wrists.

You know nobody sane’s looking forward to this,

but you know you’re no longer what they would call sane:

so why would you complain? You were always ahead of the game.