Grenfell Lost

You never know what you're losing, till you know just what you've lost

You never know who you're losing, till you can fully count the cost.

Lost,

Lost unlike keys later found

Lost unlike baggage later claimed

Lost unlike a ship run aground

But lost,

Like a hug never again.

Like the sounds of laughter before the pain

Like the main and afters, the sharers that came

for Ramadan

Before the rain that didn't fall from deep within 

Before the sirens wail 'heed warnings'  yet again

Rang out

Yes, before the wreckage.

            12 years old 

14 years young

             56 years old

And the stories never told

The runs never run

Years never seen 

Years should've been 

Years of conquer and example 

Years to live for being thankful 

 be now lost.

Lost in a matrix

decisions so tainted

That only the strong surviving 

Will seek the words of un-dividing

that lift the temperature of hope from sliding 

that heal the wounds of loss in finding

  That child who yet to speak

The man who so complete

 That girl who was a queen 

 The boy who would be King. 

Well, Up to Us now

Placed is trust now

To keep dreams alive

To live more than survive 

To wrench from so called mighty

Truth honesty and justice

Fruit where rot be practice

For the more to come

For the Youngs who’ll come

After Us

To fight the good fight

To bathe in sunlight 

Knowing that all will be well

But for how long? who can tell.

Shame it has to be this way

Shame capital and profit hold sway

Shame humanity degredates 

Segregates even those who dare,

who care so much to put health on trust, 

For you see Wealth we must 

See as immaterial 

As literal 

As the knowledge that kin to kin 

That lives within

Must see the light of each day

And preserve the perseverance of a nation

That bonds together the whole world over.

For carry on this way

When greed and privilege order day

Be the battlecry of intent

Be the aim of well meant

Be the spirit that most seek

Will keep us all forever weeping 

Trapped on bloody knees

Watching our horizon 

Fast Disappearing

Reaching out from earthly hell

With pain that’ll never ease

From a hell that’ll never freeze

Dousing no small, or big Fire!!  

Then We may as well all just eat ourselves 

And ease the planet of this burden 

It for so long bears.

                                     Damel 

                               Just doingUs

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