Poetry

Sunday 11 June 2023

Wooden man


There'll be blue birds over the white cliffs of somebody who used to like diving

Trip adviser score for Wuhan Wet market

Yard

Retiring like a dragonfly

He rules his kingdom
With an iron rod
There's no one above him
No one except God
And he gets to say who lives and who dies
With a nod of his head
Or a look from his eye

He is judge and jury
And the hangman
You can draw me in there
I'm a dead man
They tried me once
Below the flag pole
When they ran up the flag
So deep sank my soul

How long, how long,
How long you may ask
How long will I stand it
How long is my task
Will I abide and keep quiet
Hold my tongue
Let it pass
Well I find it so hard but I try it

The red man came to stand in the flame
And the yellow man too he did the same
Now the black man lived and died not in vain
But to the white man in charge
Its all just a part of his game

How long, how long will we wait to be free
Free from turmoil and flood and the blood of the the sea
Where is the love from which we can all be
With the wings of a dove flying like he

The coalman came to blacken my soul
And the hardman came to harden my heart
And I lost control of my horse and cart
And it pulled down the road where lovers part

How can, who can know his own fate
The garden of Eden, St Peter waits at the gate
But who will get there early, and who will be late
Now I don't have flower power, but I know Spring is a state



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