Vantage point

11 Apr 2024 | by Jennie Osborne & Steve Day

Poem by Jennie Osborne & Steve Day

'If I need a better poem then I take pen in hand, write what I need to write. Maybe, just maybe, I will have baked one brick.'

    If I need a better life, I build one,
          dig its foundations below the soles
      of my feet, plough the potholes
with the heels of my shoes and, into the arms of a good
      neighbour, entrust my rubble, to fire bricks.
  Take a view of myself, leave enough so they too
      can build their own new living.
And I must stake my claim to a place of my own,
              not leave it to chance.

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