Gates Of Leaders
On the streets I walk, I see shop windows that are broken
I know I heard the fire extinguisher had spoken
but I never knew, and can never accept what we loose
I just don't know how me and you became so confused.
Because you and I have lost, we can't find
we can't speak properly because they make us lose our mind
me and you are the wrong way around
because time doesn't go backwards that's what I've found.
An apple from a tree falling will always want the ground
an audience for a band, they will always want the sound
a person who wants to learn, they will want to be taught
and a heart without no mind is searching for a thought.
To those I love I hate to think that we don't have what it takes
but if they don't teach us we'll never know how to climb the gates
cause we bring out knifes and Fork's with empty plates
and smash reflections, we smash until the window breaks.
I will work my whole life for a job I can't get
and I will do it all for my pension cause they have promised me it will remove my debt
but I asked for my loan a million times and haven't received one penny yet
I have just joined the unemployment line and I'm ready to place my bet.
I see a gambler who doesn't know how to get the dream
he is sat next to a homeless man who is an ex marine
and walking in is a gang member who has blew his life
a mother sits and cries because her son has just committed suicide.
I wanna tell the politicians they can no longer hide
that you are not flying our flag when you have took our pride
you have took the legs from men who once did walk
and your fighting a war but all you ever do is talk.
A prime minister has confused us because he has spoken
so the knife I bring forward is to cut him open
and the plate is for his head for thinking he fought
I don't know but I think he would want me to use the Fork
because I know he knows that animals are hungry after all
and that's why the gate is so big and really I am not that tall
but I put all I have on my belief that we are not too small.
poem by Daniel McCann
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