Paul Warren Poems

Were you there?
And did you care?
Did you see it happen?
And did it bother you?
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How did it come to this?
A long night of despairing self-judgement
Drinking and a taste of drugs his lament
I’m finished I’ve had enough that’s all!
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I saw in your dark stare
Hatred pouring out there
How could your treatment
Be so completely spent
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I know a man who was one with his people’s pride
Whose life was for service with thoughts of self aside
His blood flows red as the glow of the Centre’s soil
He will be remembered always for his enduring toil
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(For Ian Gregor of the Road Safety Centre) .
His time of forty years was wearing the police blues
Patrolling the state highways steering his way through
Then as custodian of the kids at the Road Safety School
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What do I remember now it’s done
Of the deeds and people and ideas won
Was it me who stood tall when needed
Of times when I felt my courage exceeded
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There was a time when you could always tell
Who was for the right and who was from hell
There was no need to know why they were bad
Just reason enough that they were a known cad
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She was left all alone as a devastated single parent
To raise her children a trying task became apparent
Next a neighbour complained about the untidy house
And children running wild at night they did espouse
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On a lonely outback track the wind whistled through the glass
As the 4 WD turned the corner we weren't driving at all fast
Planted on the road side near our attention to it was drawn
Some solar lights and plastic flowers left looking so forlorn
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Listen so softly
Their voices are there
Whispered words that drift on the wind
I hear them again
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