- abigailburdess
Grenfell
Updated: Jan 12, 2021
This poem was written for the Grenfell disaster.

When you mutter dark incantations
Again and again:
Us and Them,
Us and Them,
Then you cast a spell.
To be poor
Is a character flaw
To be ill or ailing
Or old or weak
A moral failing
Money falls where is just
So all in the kingdom must
Be well
When you tell these lies
Then realise
You summon hell
Call up demons and demons will appear
Look! Here’s Satan dancing on the roof
Dear God, the smell!
Soot falls like snow
And they throw
Children from the window
That they might remain
On earth
Now, by his red light
You see the truth:
We are the same
We are worth the same
And only dumb luck
Keeps your baby from the flame