Falling through the Cracks

~

it could appear careless, as if we

hadn’t looked where we were going,

 hadn’t read the signs, minded our step

or heeded the many warnings,

then our world changed,

our vast but fragile landscape

re-drawn into a desperate 

alien horror-scape cemetery

of chaotic rubble tombs,

now we realise

we have been tricked, duped into

thinking our safety was assured,

our children were safe 

the future sound, secure

but hope has fallen through 

the cracks and with it 

our paper-thin trust

we are buried alive

and are dying

*

© Graham R Sherwood 02/23