We Are the Little Ones – Written Sunday 1st December 2019 (Aged 44)

We Are the Little Ones

in short,
words cannot romanticise
the cruelness
of some human beings
their lazy words cut deep
like a wedged shaped knife
with its handle incomplete

look at them,
with strange dances
but their dance is encouraged
and seen as fully made
then in museums of power
the dance is displayed not in ornate glass cabinets
but in the suffering of a fragile cage

and words
cannot romanticise
the mis management
of this awful arrangement
as it bares its teeth
and its rolling lolling anxious underneath
give us peace
because we are the little ones
on which this dance will feast




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James Garratt – Sunday 1st December 1995