Neville

Discarded 2

Discarded 2

 

Just look

how quickly they have forgotten you

One day

No doubt they will forget me too

 

In the meantime  

Having done our own little bit

To help

All those distressed and disturbed

 

We must remember,

Neither you

Nor I are Kennedy’s, a Gandhi or Mandela

No .. not even a Cohen, Shelley or a Keats

 

And whilst

There may be those who argue ..

Neither are we Hitler, Manson or Bin Laden

So we might just as well be sinners, you and me

 

Ha .. she say’s

In no time at all we shall each be forgotten,

Like a broken and discarded cup

Yet priceless …

 

Just as those

Several sheets of crumpled paper

Containing scribbled and disjointed words

Now overflow onto the hearth, are worthless …