Tents pitched
In front of shuttered
Shops in decaying
English towns that
Have seen better
Days.
Frayed
And tattered
Shopfronts,
Citizens living
On benefits,
The golden age
Of the Industrial
Revolution a
Fading memory,
And the chaos of
Daily demonstrations
By a left and right
Who cling onto desperate
Causes to give their hollow
Lives some meaning
And definition.
While the bedraggled
And poor of Africa
And the Middle East
Cross the Channel with
The delusion that
Material prosperity
Will save their souls.
Instead they find
A decaying land
And a poverty
Of hope in a
Hostile world
And a people
Living through
The fall of their
Civilisation,
For where
There’s a rise
There’s also
A fall.
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With a digital painting from Nikos Laios
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