Just imagine being woken up
\nBy something thats so dire
\nThe awful realisation
\nThat your tower block
\nIs on fire<\/p>\n
Choking on the embers
\nTasting the thick smoke
\nHearing the shrieks of neighnours
\nAnd needing to go for broke<\/p>\n
Every single inch of you in sweat
\nAnd bodily pain
\nKnowing in a moment
\nLife could be ebbing fast
\nYES Totally Insane<\/p>\n
Your nerves and sudden panic
\nAnd now what can you do
\nThe notice says in case of fire
\nStay put<\/p>\n
Sit in the loo<\/p>\n
Cover yourself in wet towels
\nAnd wait for the fire brigade
\nThat did seem the best idea
\nWait for outside aid<\/p>\n
It was dark across North Kensington
\nSirens though you hear
\nThe crackling and the jangling
\nAnd all that dreadful fear<\/p>\n
Of burning to a crisp
\nThe thought the agony
\nWould be
\nMore than one could contemplate
\nand would someone hear your plea?<\/p>\n
There is no need to venture out
\nInto the corridor
\nInto the blackness of the smoke
\nNow outside the door
\nFind the stairs and run and run
\nWhat else could one do
\nAnd it was getting hotter
\nUntil I took the view<\/p>\n
It doesnt look like they are coming
\nPeople calling from off the ground
\nWhat number are you
\nWhat floor are you on
\nAnd that vile crackling sound
\nChildren screaming, babies crying
\nI opened up my door
\nMoved into a great black cloud
\nAnd could smell the blood and gore<\/p>\n
The stairs were dark and slippery
\nThe gas pipes fitted there
\nHad ruptured and were burning
\nThe escape route of despair
\nAlready several bodies
\nWere broken and forlorn
\nPeople running in all directions
\nClearly panic torn<\/p>\n
GRENFELL was our nightmare
\nRevisited for me
\nSince the alterations
\nThat All of us could see
\nThe inevitable disaster
\nLooming in our minds
\nAnd despite our constant karping
\nAnd the battle lines<\/p>\n
We had drawn up with
\nThe council leaving nothing out at all
\nBut The council and the government of the day
\nIgnored our call<\/p>\n
Migrants we were tenants of the council
\nWe were poor
\nMany of us on benefits
\nSo easy to ignore
\nKEnsington was TORY
\nAnd a borough for those who
\nThe council had respect for
\nNot like us, the view<\/p>\n
Really shoddy working
\nIn situ to be sure
\nAll that cladding and new windows
\nFire alarms and more
\nSprinklers no not sprinklers
\nContainment was what they
\nTalked about their mantra
\nIn fact, we had no say<\/p>\n
And so each day we lived there
\nMore Especially at night we worried about
\nAn outcome
\nAnd used our combined might
\nTo try to get some answers
\nBut all to no avail
\nAnd now the worst had happened
\nOn a gigantic scale<\/p>\n
It must have been much lower down
\nA fireman helped me to the street
\nThe building was an inferno
\nThe fire had spread
\nAlmost the complete
\nFacade was burning crazily
\nAnd that rotten cladding
\nWas
\nFalling off in great big chunks
\nAnd dropping down because<\/p>\n
Clearly it was imflammable
\nAnd seemed to be now why
\nThe fire had spread so rapidly
\nAnd raised the risks to high<\/p>\n
I was put into an ambulance
\nAnd by that time i was gone
\nSoot and fire inside my lungs
\nAnd that smoke upon
\nIt got into my nostrils
\nAnd blinded my eyes
\nThat some had stayed and perished
\nWhen somebody dies<\/p>\n
Ringing up their parents or kith and kin
\nOf friends
\nWaiting for the flames
\nTo Mark their respected ends<\/p>\n
Covering their babies
\nWishing they could be
\nAnywhere but in this burning building
\nJust be freeb<\/p>\n
Underneath the sprinklers
\nOr in a safer place
\nInstead of in this rotten block
\nThat was clearly a disgrace<\/p>\n
Some leapt out of windows
\nFalling to their death
\nSome threw out their babies
\nLost souls denied breath
\nThe union of family
\nLost for evermore
\nAnd just total disorder
\nNever seen before<\/p>\n
Building laws and planning
\nFire notes to the fore
\nCuts in public housing
\nAnd in police budgets
\nA core
\nReason for the numbers
\nAnd efficiency around
\nAusterity cuts deep
\nInto the quick of human flesh
\nWhere the poor are left to weep<\/p>\n
The Grenfell Tower
\nAn ediface of terror and of pain
\nClad in cosmetic composition
\nWith that polyurethane
\nBrand new plastic windows
\nFortuitously we saw
\nthis regeneration
\nWho could wish for more?<\/p>\n
Apparently a lot of tenants
\nPointed out that they
\nWere far from happy about them all
\nAnd more frightened every day
\nThe cladding on the outside
\nApparently burned well
\nAnd with only one escape stairway
\nIf a fire broke out then HELL<\/p>\n
Would clearly be inevitable
\nAnd sure thing what we saw
\nWas a spread of fire so dire
\nA dilemma to be sure
\nClearly there were a lots of faults
\nAnd the council were made aware
\nLots of chiefs but the indians
\nWere ultimately no where<\/p>\n
And despite the fire in Camberwell
\nThey appreared to go to ground
\nNo SPRINKLERS Were fitted
\nNO Fire alarms were found
\nDifferent instrctions as to what to do
\nAnd they piped all the gas
\nUp the only escape route
\nwhich to most of us seemed crass<\/p>\n
Building regulations?
\nCertain sitings do not cheer
\nBoilers near to exit doors
\nAnd fuse boxes
\nmore fear
\nChaos getting people out
\nThey didnt know what to do
\nAnd many will have been burned alive
\nConfused it became true<\/p>\n
And now we see the crowds
\nOf dedicated souls
\nWho all have come together
\nIn their varying roles
\nAt the moment thirty confirmed as dead,
\nBut this figure is set to rise
\nThe numbers being played down
\nThe tenants realise<\/p>\n
For of course It was a death trap
\nNo stair lights on we hear
\nExtinguishers had not been maintained
\nAll of this was clear
\nAluminium composite material
\nIts fire flsme rating poor
\nWith all the polyurethane
\nHelped the flames spread more and more<\/p>\n
this is a vile disaster
\nHundreds lost for sure
\nSome critical in hospital
\nScenes from some vile war
\nFill the airwaves daily
\nThe suffering immense
\nBut as for councils officers
\nIt really makes no sense<\/p>\n
Nobody has come around
\nTo see to help to be
\nSharing of their terror
\nIgnored again free
\nTo do their own thing seemingly
\nGet on with their lot
\nMrs May came by they say
\nBut meet with them did not<\/p>\n
Its as if they were not worthy
\nOf grief of fright of pain
\nAnd that pissed off the victims
\nRobotic, wooden, vain
\nThis is how she does things
\nUncomfortable in her own skin
\nOr does she think they are beaneath her
\nExcuses are wearing thin<\/p>\n
Jeremy Corbyn came to see them
\nHugged them showed he cared
\nA man of the people
\nClearly moved and scared
\nBy just so many victims
\nAnd he listened intently
\nTo all the cries for help he heard
\nThe queen and Prince William
\nMet the people they
\nClearly realising their coming
\nHelped
\nNo plea fell on deaf ears for certain
\nCompassion clearly shown
\nBUt Mrs May is built that way
\nHer heart is made of stone<\/p>\n
Others came and did their stint
\nBut the mood was changing fast
\nThe media were all around them
\nUnder all that blast
\nTempers they were fraying
\nUpsets were intense
\nDespite the coming together of the people
\nIt really made no sense<\/p>\n
The non arrival of the council
\nWhich riled the crowd who felt
\nThey had all the money
\nBut the cards that they had dealt
\nWere really lower order
\nAllocations to the poor
\nWere minimal and dismal
\nAnd perhaps outside the law<\/p>\n
The people around the area and in London
\nDid donate
\nEverything you could think of
\nAnd they did administrate
\nThe sorting storing giving
\nWorking night and day
\nBut nothing from the council
\nTo most people’s dismay<\/p>\n
So many people missing
\nAnomalies galore
\nThe cladding the lack of supervision
\nAnd more and more and more
\nFrustration sadness angst and pain
\nAnd then came Mrs May
\nWho equalled the public funded cash
\n5 million so to say<\/p>\n
Frustration moved to anger
\nSome devided they would march off to South Kensington
\nTo the offices and pay
\nTheir respects to the council
\nBashing on their door
\nDemanding help and clearly
\nThey all were expecting more<\/p>\n
A public enquiry again via Mrs May
\nThere should have been a inquest
\nThe order of the day
\nThe list of dead will reach a hundred
\nThats the firm belief
\nAnd all of them could have been saved
\nAlong with all this grief!<\/p>\n
Rehousing them w8ith the borough
\nAnd caring for them
\nWe
\nMust keeo our eyes upon them
\nAs time passes
\nWe shall see
\nAnother story comes to play
\nAnd forgotten they will be<\/p>\n
Sniffer dogs were searching
\nFor corpses in the place
\nThe ediface of horror
\nThe courage shown and grace
\nFrom nursing staff and fire brigade
\nWho dealt as best they could
\nWith so much strees and evil
\nWorking for the good<\/p>\n
As light came up this morning
\nThe skies above were blue
\nInfused with the criss cross chem trails
\nThe pilots have to do
\nThis geo engineering this science by deceit
\nThere’s no let up to this government crap
\nAnd the wishes of the elite<\/p>\n
And so it stands a blackened wreck
\nA monument to those
\nWho lost their lives
\nOr were injured
\nAnd as their anger grows<\/p>\n
The evidence remains behind
\nOf the ugly grotesque tower
\nThat will now have to be taken down
\nAfter they all scour
\nThe premises for evidence
\nAnd whether we shall ever know
\nHow many victims perished
\nAdding to the eternal glow<\/p>\n
Xx Its amazing to see all those who helped the coming together of heroes from the Fire Dept the police together with residents and
\nAll the many people who gave money to the cause all those who gave useful articles and who are helping to sort and distribute them.<\/p>\n
This is a mark of true respect and love for each other across all races <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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