Future?

Future?

Oppression in the building, persecution in the air, 

Staff brutal autocrats, just doing their jobsworths,

Jobseekers, unemployed, freeloaders, scroungers,

Underclass, not really human,

Identified by a number with a sneer,

Looked past or through, not really here,

Despair, stagnation, fear fill the air,

A future? That isn’t found here.

Lest we forget

Lest we forget, 


Lest we forget, remember those who gave their lives,
Gran remembered the American GI's who stole a life,

They camped up on the chase you see,
training, during wartime years,

Whilst on leave, they'd come to town,
paint the town red, you could say,

Drunk, white, GI's, chased, for sport, a black GI,
through the town, up the clock tower...off the clock tower,

Lest we forget those stolen lives, my gran would say,
The past becomes the present becomes our future.