Poetry – The Forgotten and Sacrificed.

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The Forgotten and Sacrificed.

Brave nurses in visors and masks

Fight the disease.

Brave carers in marigolds and scarves –

Brought to their knees.

Abandoned in homes,

Sacrificed to the tide,

The elderly

Lie forgotten inside.

No ventilators for you

Margaret,

Though you fought in the war,

Lest we forget.

For admission to hospital

You’ll just have to wait.

Please sign the form:

Do Not Resuscitate!

Brave nurses in visors and masks

Fight the disease.

Brave carers in marigolds and scarves –

Brought to their knees.

Opher – 29.4.2020

As Covid-19 decimates the elderly inmates of our Care Homes the true devastation wreaked by the disease is covered up.

Early on in the fight the government decided to sacrifice the elderly in Care Homes.

There was no PPE for the Care Staff and no training.

When the elderly became ill they were not rushed into intensive care. They were left in the homes to die.

The poorly equipped carers were left to care for them as best they could. No drugs, no protection, no hope. They administered to the dying and went home to their families. No visors for them. No gloves or aprons – other than what they scrounged for themselves.

The deaths were not included in any official figures – it was just covered up!

Yet these were government decisions.

Our elderly were sacrificed.

THANK YOU BRAVE CARERS!!!

Poetry – Welcome Strangers

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Welcome Strangers

From overseas they came

To care for our elderly,

Pick our vegetables,

Stack our shelves,

Deliver our goods

And nurse our sick.

Villified, demonized,

Bullied, denigrated

And driven out.

Low paid, unwanted,

Abused, despised,

Be in no doubt.

In this game

We have no shame.

Without too much lament

We demanded

That hostile environment!

Opher – 16.4.2020

The populist Brexiteers demonised Muslims and Eastern Europeans, exaggerating problems and magnifying concerns.

It seems that Britain was being swamped with Muslims – all intent on introducing Sharia law and taking over the country.

They were all gang-raping young white girls.

The Eastern Europeans were bringing in their gangsters. The streets were full of foreign voices.

Populist politicians used this to turn to their advantage. Rapists, drug dealers, criminals and people taking our jobs.

That was the story.

Except now we know those immigrants were really Key Workers that we all depend on – vegetable and fruit pickers, nurses, doctors, carers, shelf stackers, drivers and cleaners.

In order to get elected the politicians stirred up fear and hatred. In order to get Brexit through they stirred up hysteria against immigrants. And the Media, to sell copy, magnified it and whipped it up into a storm!

They were demonised and driven away!!

Now we have Covid 19 and we find that these people were the very ones we needed!!