The tide is high, sandbag your street!
 Converging, swelling channels meet
 The torrent roars, banks are breached
 Stay calm, be cool, a part at least

 The brakes are on, controlled retreat
 Quick-go-slowly, heart valve weak
 Fairness flounders, sincere cheats
 Disgraced champions, taste defeat

 Beware the timely statement leak...
 The trigger is the price of meat
 Barricade your first floor doors
 Evacuate your sick and poor

 Be larger picture, stronger, deep
 Be good, be bad, be more, elite...
 prince of bread, a pint of peace
 In Middle Earth, in Middle East

 Go east, go north, go south, go west
 Leave mouths open, with your best
 Adapt to change, stay unimpressed
 Adopt: 'Chekov', to family crest