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The Night Glenfell

         A summer solstice candle breezing midst the twilight air  
                                                          Where aloft the dizzying height of storey twenty four
                                                         That gazed with envy upon firm Lancaster Green below

(brutalist style,) A concrete pitted monument that yearned for the great celeste
                          Brutalist pinnacled cage that cements the scape
                          Where concrete structures eradicate the green 
                          And take their place betwixt an urban utopia
                          It couldn’t happen again, not after Lakanal
                          Same thing! An electrical fault on some cheap device
                          And wrong protocol that caused sad loss of life
                          So Grenfell Tower had earned its landlords easy money
                          Their affluence procured from the deprived
                           

                          
(  one exit
Overlooked rich Kensington and Chelsea. Deprived Grenfell.  Extremes of poverty and affluence.

Lakanal House fire 2009 loss of life. The deceased given the wrong protocol. No lessons learnt.)

The flames played havoc, a creeping plumage that consumed new cladding
Where silent souls submitted to the wealth of intense heat
Free light for rich Chelsea and Kensington to peruse
Across the great divide of worth
To witness this sacrificial rite of greed
One exit to free them from their plight
Secured within this night-time prison 
Where embers from the debris punctured the sky
And fell like tears upon the deep below
As the blaze took hold with vengeance square
Who knows the fear behind those walls
Of those who faced a fate within this burning pyre
Stuck in the lofty heights of concrete block
Where dwelling upon dwelling saves space
And claustrophobia abounds

Charred shrine upon the sky-line gray
Sad recall for those who remain
There but for providence go….
The night that Glenfell
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