THE NEW WASTELAND

Where once bright cities sang with song

Dark shapes in shadows move along

Where once our ships span out the world

Our docks lie idle, cruel, cold

Where once our mill towns span their weave

Dank shells are left or take their leave

Where once a million men marched out

There shambles now men hollowed out

Where once a nation’s healthy kin

Laughed, joked and bubbled in the Sun

A grey breed of abused and drugged

Replace our Race – the final sin

Where once a Lion roared defiant

We tamely give a false reliance

Where once all folk, all faith were one

Our wasted streets are broken down

And once a world lay at our feet

We give it now to easy meat…

Eddy Morrison