BLUE REMEMBERED LIGHTS
The following - with a big nod to A.E. Houseman - came to me after reading Steve Rudd's poem "Christmas Lights" here on WOL.
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Into my world nightmarish frights
Yon far carriageway shows
What are those blue remembered lights
What sights, what sounds are those?
That is the land of a fatal crash
I see it painfully plain
The tragic end to a Christmas dash
That cannot come again.
.(N.B. DRIVE CAREFULLY THIS CHRISTMAS - AND ALWAYS!!)......................................................
M.C. Newberry
Thu 11th Dec 2014 11:14
Perhaps the more civilised sort of society
is that which gives no thought to the boys and
girls in blue until they are needed. The
present day trend to rubbish them at every turn
says more about the society they serve than their own position in it.
The brutish self-pitying creature who shot and blinded that officer who later committed suicide
is an individual example; imagine that
multiplied and the problem becomes society itself.
Not a pleasant prospect!