We should have let them sleep
Creeping death slips inside
Too quickly up the stairwells
Choking flame seeping stealthily
To knock on bedroom doors
Burst into waiting rooms
No longer living rooms -
It might have been kinder
To let them sleep
I wish we’d let them sleep
Too quietly the bells are ringing
Loud enough to wake the dead
Too soon the people are choking
Above the survival line families
Are awakening
Panicking and dying -
It might have been kinder
To let them sleep
Whilst the guilty city sleeps
Black rain pours down
From
blood-choked skies
Excuses dripping
sound biting
From the Power Shower
To leave
nothing behind
But this
skeleton tower -
It might have been kinder
To let them sleep
Society remains asleep
To these bitter divisions
Segregating our cities
A better bitter example
Between the lives and deaths
Of the rich and poor
Would be hard to find -
Should you need a reminder
Someone made them sleep
MAWH, June 2017
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