Days of Poverty and War those men do leer they do all the, ‘dirty work’ ignorance wears stockings and it … More

you want to reach into a past but it is not real
it is a hopeful feeling
of feelings that you used to once feel

those who fought and battled
from child labour, women’s votes,
the struggles of working people
the fights that had to be fought
all to strive for a better fairer more equal society
now we have people,
betraying all those struggles

i am very tired of this,
tired of people –
too afraid to be anything –
other than narrow minded

some people seem to crouch in their fear
as if it is a way of life
an ignorant leer,
they yearn for a past –
that not only kept them warm