Mach’s Gut, Mutti

Portrait Painting of Angela Merkel by Elizabeth Payton FAIRUSE

Creative Common Market

Farewell

Mrs Merkel

you’ve done swell

-mostly.

You helped keep the EU afloat

but not to gloat:

its greatest trials

lie ahead.

You mothballed many a nuclear power station

only to make the country more dependent

on coal for energy generation

- and less likely to meet its goals under the Paris Agreement.

You managed to keep open

as so many of your people had been hoping

the lines to Moscow and Beijing

but at what cost for the future?

(Do you really think that the pipeline

will make it easier to align

relations between Russia

and 21st century Prussia

without alienating your allies

and compromising historic ties?

You should know at the very least

You grew up in the East….)

I could go on

but I do not want to leave the impression

that I consider your action

a failure: not at all.

You have done better than most.

Yet you leave your post

with your country facing greater challenges

than when you assumed it.

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