A Chill To The Warmest Spine – Written Saturday 14th July 2007 (Aged 32)

A Chill To The Warmest Spine

your own lack of self awareness
means stupidity,
plugs your course
you have no idea of the suffering –
which you have caused
your own clumsiness
and lack of self belief
brings a chill to the warmest spine
and a chatter to the most able teeth
you have traipsed through our golden fields
your own stupidity
has destroyed harvests –
that we would have loved to yield
you sit in your tower,
a fluer de mare with it’s sunlight power
your ignorance has you by the throat
that’s why, at best, you cower
and at your worst, you just gloat
do you think,
we would just sit up and beg
as you trampled us into the dirt
and flung our love over the edge




James Garratt – Saturday 14th July 2007


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