There’s a Green Heart icon, blazing
on a side of a Tower-block building
a vibrant Flag of Defiance, dipped
in Nature’s resilient colours, as a symbol
of ‘Hope, Unity, Love
and Remembrance’...
Last year’s, annual Silent walk
marked the 3rd year Anniversary
of London’s: Grenfell, shame!
Due to UK’s Covid nightmare
we had to attend - online
a surreal Virtual event
we assumed, would be - as bad
as things - could Retrograde;
on May 7th 2021, some 31 days, away
from this year’s Grenfell memorial date
another Tower-block
set London’s sky’s ablaze, once again
forcing 25 Fire Trucks
and 125, brave Firefighters
to endanger their lives and relieve
those traumatic Grenfell scenes, again...
All caused, by inhumane: Construction practices
with private companies Government Enabled
and subsidised, Encouraged into cutting
petty fiscal corners by Knowingly, utilising Faulty
building Cladding materials
that’s right, multimillion contract’s
short-changed, in-to
human Death-traps, by bottom-line
mandating, Mindsets
by number crunching, over Cladding...?!
72 Children, Parents and in some ghastly cases
Three or four generations, of a family: Murdered
in one single - abhorrent night
by that Multiplicative - festering Greed
of Capitalism’s
morally bankrupt – Ideal
and indefensibly - defunct
Governmental disdain
for those, most needy: in our Society.
Six days earlier, to 2021’s
ill-fated Friday’s
Poplar fire disaster, Parliament: Rejected
an amendment, to 2017’s Grenfell disaster - Pacifying
Fire Safety Bill, that has now shackled
hundreds of those same Grenfell’s survivors
and Thousands of London’s citizens
to foot the Bill
for Remedying fireproofing works
with individual costs ranging into Thousands of pounds!
In 4 years
since Grenfell’s - shame
with residents, burdened - to Pay
for our Government proposed
Fire safety Bill changes;
Still:
barely, Fifty %
of London’s Tower-blocks
have had their Death-trap cladding
Rectified...
Meanwhile, a month earlier
in March 2021 while the UK media
was Conveniently: distractedly, ENRAGED!
At a talk show interview - performance
consisting of inflammatory, one-sided
scripted statements, by part-time actress
and Fool-time: millionaire - Celeb;
our UK government, Brazenly announced
it was ending 30 year’s
of Nuclear warhead - Gradual disarmament
and instead, confirmed it was utilising
Vital: Taxpayers funds, during a Global pandemic
to order More: trident Warheads
and Add to its already substantial, Nuclear stockpile...
Tell me, how do we teach our children
to hope: for better?
When we’re all walking around
with that Gangrene despair
of disillusionment and festering: distrust
feeling, that bleak hollowness
seeping-in
with every breath of politicised toxicity
we inhale
and exhale: daily, while lamenting endlessly
forced, to rasp-out our choking
defiance
while traversing that ever inclining, climb
to fight-on
in remembrance and quested Justice: for Grenfell’s
EverGreen legacy: for Change
to Stop
such Systemic abuses, targeting
the Most
needy, in our Society…
© L. B. Mek
8th of May 2021