The grass around the Abbey is short green
Nearby the cross of Eleanor is seen
Ancient Royal people, Harald slain
Buried near the Cross of Aquitaine
The grass around the Abbey is short green
Nearby the cross of Eleanor is seen
Ancient Royal people, Harald slain
Buried near the Cross of Aquitaine
Noone saw me,no one met my eyes.
I felt the life inside me wilt and die
Of no value to the human race
If no-one saw them they would not exist
Leonard Cohen”s name was on a list.
I almost burned away in hot distress
The charred remains would have no fixed address.
Like the Jews who wandered for a space,
No eyes no gold ,no teeth, I am a Jew
I have no tongue to speak, nor language too.
By the flowerbed Dad and I would talk
In 1952 he still could walk
We spent the afternoon in Willows Park
At least there were some sparrows if not larks.
He wore a jacket made of thinning tweed
He felt cold in summer hence the need
He smoked cheap cigarettes I love their smell
Though they killed you Daddy I know well.
I did not understand that God was frail
I prayed for you but all to no avail.
The Jews in Auschwitz must have prayed at first
Then singing Kaddish stumbled to their deaths
God cannot be judged though humans can
Each Jew was a real person like I am
Every living person is another world
In its Imagination Europe failed
But could Daddy have been saved for ten more years?
Does even the best neighbour really care?
Few will help us mourn the ones we lost
Their feeble hearts just cannot bear the cost
Am I a saint myself for I am frail
Hiding from the lightning and the hail
I’ve been so far away from home
I’ve been so lonely without you
I heard the ghosts here as they moaned
And they made me feel so blue
We drove past bulging linseed fields
In Suffolk with its bonny views
We stopped to have a meal
I can’t remember how I’ve been
I see that you have gone
And left me weeping here bereft
There’s always been someone
Is this another test?
I can’t live without your smile
Without your eyes and tender hands
Come with me for a while
To play like children on the sands.
Oh sands of Dunwich bay
Where the amber used to hide
I don’t know what to say
I’m sailing out on the
spring tide
I’m going to give you medication now
To keep the sugar in your blood quite low
He fell, the War Memorial was, his doom
Broke his nose, not coming home
His eye bled and his brain
His cheekbone did complain
Oh, he’s never,never, coming home àgain.
In the ambulance they screamed
Whilst his blood congealed
He’s never never coming home àgain
They asked him could he count
Dying,I lament
God don’t mind dementia in the Saints
The sun appeared but now has left us here
With dull grey sky and trees as cruel as spears
We control our homes as best we can
But. Nature is a Force more strong than Man
Even in our bodies we feel pain
Thus evil is around us like a stain
Why does God all powerful not step in?
When children die,when wars begin again?
When every state has weapons for mass kills
Jesus dies with victims of our Will
We allowed the government our tax
So our evil to the worst is matched
The sun appeared but now has left us here
With dull grey sky and trees as cruel as spears
We control our homes as best we can
But. Nature is a Force more strong than Man
Even in our bodies we feel pain
Thus evil is around us like a stain
Why does God all powerful not step in?
When children die,when wars begin again?
When every state has weapons for mass kills
Jesus dies with victims of our Will
We allowed the government our tax
So our evil to the worst is matched
In the sun the branches look quite red
Yet in the . winter rain they looked near dead
Hope can spring up like the holy sap
Bring life again and cross the fearsome gap.
With our courage let us walk ahead
Until the sacred river and our bed
I caught the tube for urine on my toe
The catheter is hurting more and more
I want to run away but I can’t walk
Mother take me home, it’s getting dark
I paid my monthly phone bill with a card
I must talk to friends when life is hard
I never thought I’d live to be so old
My chilblains disappeared, it’s not so cold
How I suffered as a little child
My brother was aggressive,he was wild
Recently he died, he got away
I miss him, I forgave him for those days
We both missed Daddy, how can Daddies die?
God is stranger than a mother’s
Sigh
I don’t like God nor calculating Pi
I should have studied music it was Gay
Dancing on the. Altar we decay.
The Holy Spirit’s fled in disarray
Don’t tread on the little flowers
in Katyn Forest
Fed with the blood of 20,000 unarmed men or roughly
Shot to bring àbout Utopia
How can good come out of evil?
How can force bring about love
How can the dead rise again?
God was absent already
Before the Holocaust
Before Stalingrad
Before Dresden
Before we aborted the inconvenient
Before the priest said Mass
Before we bit the Host
Before love waned
Before our eyes faded
We saw nothing until the bomb dropped
And he said, let there be light