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
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