I WATCH with horrific fascination, The excerpts on TV This has the mark of Spielberg, But what title could it be ?

A tower engulfed in flames and ash, Too terrible for contemplation, “Hell on Earth” perhaps ?

Smoke, fire, a blazing building, Now that’s a bit far fetched.

Not a London tower block ?

Suddenly I retched.

These heroic firemen Were not in a fantasy.

This was 2017 And harsh reality.

Dreadful moving pictures Of panic and death, Mayhem, screams and terror, People breathing their last breath.

Perhaps somewhere in the blackness There was a reason why.

Impossible to understand.

But surely for them we try.

Christine Hulme Goostrey