Thursday, 24 March 2022

sadness at the felling

sadness at the felling


japan at this time of year

the cherry blossom festival

that expanse of silence falling in beauty

but oh mumbles 

in underhill park they have chopped them down

for a football changing room

they’ know who ‘they’ are

bereft of the soul bank where they

pile the souls for the soulless 

for those without benefit of insight

for they would not consider an inch

to the left or right of time as they

bring in the contractor’s indifference 

to the footfall of the years’ people

  he’s swearing ref he’s swearing again

  blow the whistle on this pitch of thought

i told them but the digital referee blew me

away with your silly billy thoughts for

away the lads are on the park 

again the plastic bottles line the touch line

they’ll replant the blossoms the councillor said

but you cannot replant my time for

by the time their petals fall again

i’ll be far offside of the great game

it’s a shame i tell you 

but you have no shame

you are all the bloody same



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