Divided World Poem by SPC Kellaway

Empty streets of desolation
Boarded up houses standing alone
Factory buildings padlocked and empty

Forgotten men recalling better times
Times when they had a future
a job, some money to spare

Engineers and skilled workers
Head bowed and forlorn
Lining up for their pennies

Families dreading an empty Christmas
Mothers mending worn out clothes
Kids sensing their parents fears

Lonely hearts on lonely corners
their immortality dancing away
seeking bread, soup and comfort

Grey faces staring at a grey sky
seeking a glimmer through the gloom
proud nations standing alone

University leavers sweeping roads
with broken promises and no hope
education, disillusion, desolation

These are the barren years
and the world has turned
Please peace try again