Regeneration Game

REGENERATION GAME Poverty stigmatises Poverty overwhelms Poverty condemns To rid an area of its poor Is the new regeneration game That governments catering to middle class greed employ Thus keeping the third estate in check Sterility of environment White washing of areas Coupled with compulsory cauterization of attachment Are the sticks that beat down the resolve Of the new underserving poor Those that made an area Vibrant Rhythmic with charm And a melting pot of cohesion Are no longer welcomed Now the developer sees an opportunity The middle class scramble For central havens Above the best schools Sends planners into an orgy Of false accusation against the poor And wilful disregard for the Life blood of the communities They so lovingly plunder The hardship of having too much Is the story of those in power An Understanding of poverty Is not a vote puller Thus all are rated on their property value And their post code To beat the low paid and waged And the non-double barrelled named Is a game the chattering classes engage in Stigmatising the hardworking Demonising them for living Democracy functions today By dividing society into the powerful and the followers Those that cannot influence Or have friends with connections Are never to be allowed within the city walls Lepers they must always be To occupy a space where one Is no longer welcomed Is the daily grief of the estate inhabitants Those that have stayed when the going was rough Are now discouraged from Claiming ancestry of an area They will be rooted out come what may By a council with middle class ambitions Social depravity does not fit With most government’s upward mobility The Victorian idea of the needful poor Rears its ugly head even in our modern times Those that have not are always Meant to be have nots Politically motivated poor bashing Is how a party gets into power and stays in power The economy and society are pawns only To attract Buy And keep voters Fooled by the scraps from a heavy laden debt table Selfishness is an ingredient in all Past social implosions Today’s regeneration plans May ignite and incite smouldering ambition When those that want a fair share May overcome The goliath that is selfishness