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David R. Mellor

So many are falling from the skies, of comfortable lives

So many are falling from the skies, of comfortable lives
Until between the clouds, we can see me and you
Drinking in the bar one minute
Then outside Tesco
Mouths ajar

So many are breaking up inside
Falling from the skies,
Of comfortable lives

Passing the credit cards
Trying to grasp Universal Credit
Fingertips touching their children
On the way down
Landing with crash
At their door
Now repossessed
With someone else inside

So many are slipping through the cracks
Of this freezing land
Perishing in doorways
No hope insight
Except your hand


Kensington and Chelsea

Sleep well tonight
With your burning
Log fire

Scurrying and searching
For that vintage caviar

A steaming shower
Cooled with luxury cosmetics
Burning your Botox lips

Sleep well tonight
Holding on to those
Curled up in fresh satin sheets

But what troubles you?
You don’t want the poor
Living in a block of flats next door
Well, now you don’t have to worry about that anymore

 

Hillsborough 96

Pissed on
Shit upon
Stolen our pride
Fiddling the statements
Of those that you let die

Gone past the cut off point of caring
Who was left in the pile?

Leaving the ambulances revving
No need to push through
They’re only football supporters not like me and you

Conceited and arrogant blaming the dead for dying
Hats off to those who never gave up trying.

 

Street Scene

That’s a tanning studio
That’s a chippy
That’s a tanning studio

That’s a hairdressers

Empty shop
Empty shop
Empty shop

That’s a smoke free Wetherspoons

That’s a closed pub
That’s a closed pub
That’s a closed pub

That’s a couple strapped
for cash

That’s a family next door
whose giro
couldn’t last

That’s a fake tan
That’s a discarded chip paper
That’s another fake tan

That’s just a street
come to the end

 

David R. Mellor was born in 1964, (Liverpool, England) difficult birth, didn’t find his voice until my youth. Years of thinking he was nobody and treated as such. However, hit the paper papering over the scars. Found understanding and belief through words. He has been published and performed widely from the BBC, The Tate, galleries and pubs and everything in between. His poems are autobiographical, others topical and several his take on life.

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