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Stop the War Parliament Square October 2007 It is the way he arrives that heats my heart and makes Me smile I hear him first tap tap tapping the ground with his stick down wind away from me and all security Beyond convention on common parts sound enough to make me turn around as he shuffles by dragging his wheelie cart stuffed full with placards and quiet ideals Made at home in England just like him and just like me I'll know his name later but for now Praise be We are in front of parliament the marchers are like sheep behind barriers, tunneled, funneled, shepherds in blue the old bill, as always, will Guard the wrong man We are All close to Mr Churchill a king our old knight who also once rode an ocean to make us free Winston now in stony silence on his plinth holds his own untapping cane and closer still is sir Brian Haw as yet untapped who bellows out from beside his weather beaten battered tattered old shack Camelot is policed and ring fenced once again Meanwhile On the other side of the road Our friend stands Arthur with his banner in the air In his hand Proud fearlessly calls to the caged to escape and join him in the street He roars a lion with laughter having outflanked the police emerging from the underground a station Westminster bound on the District line that will soon take him home to shuffle by happy happenstance into this democratic space a small victory with a cardboard lance held aloft To protest and oh the joy The police bemused embarrassed know not what to do with a bruised and battered old man and his signs (lay a finger on him the crowd priests included and I will explode) To protect this man with a bruised and battered flag held proudly up high in his hand Yet I see this too in their constabled uniformed red white and blue faces he is their dad a father a grand father who fought a battle against u boats and so they know their history its outcome their debt He is let alone and I'll be damned if I don't see Winnie lift his stick and smile in salute to liberty deep beneath his grey dead unbeaten dark dead yet living grit
UPDATE: I cry most times I re read this and that makes me happy |
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| Author | Southbanksteve from London, UK |
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