Fault-lines
It’s nobody’s fault
that shifting tectonic plates
once split this kingdom,
blessed one half at birth with coal
and a black economy.And who is to blame
if fortunes also shift, slide,
luck gets all mined out;
only shadows are left now
and dust trapped in the fault-lines.
@Eleanor Livingstone
It’s somebody’s fault
that shifting political sands
have now split this Kingdom
cursing half of both halves
with the poverty of injustice
and who is to blame
but ourselves, if fault-lines
are cleaved by the pernicious,
do we now rue our missed chance
to blow dust from the drawing board