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Before
Crash,
crash.
Debris
of worn out society,
ready
to be discarded.
Tyres
without a car.
Falling
inwards,
grand
buildings reduced to ruin and squalor.
Victims
of worldly greed
exposed
to a vicious sky.
Arrows
pointing nowhere.
Relics
of former soulless habitation.
Man’s
labour drifting to oblivion.
Who
cares now?
Before
it’s too late
and
the final collapse comes
heed
the warning signs;
rebuild
a broken civilization.
One of five poems written by Charles Jobson in response to paintings at the BEAT (Borough of Ealing Art Trail) exhibit at St John's Church, West Ealing in September 2018.
The painting is entitled Before, by the artist and © Lee Croxford.
Poem © Charles Jobson. For permission to re-use contact godfrey@wordsout.co.uk.
