Copied From A Friends Fb Page

[Bobbisox1]

They said the world was closed today
So I went to have a look,
I found it with the shutters down
And the phone was off the hook.
So I stood there for a little while
But no one was around,
Then silence came and startled me
With the most alarming sound.
I asked him where the others were,
And why the streets were bare,
He whispered ‘Life had ran away
While death was playing there’
‘Oh no’ I said ‘It can’t be true
For life is not afraid’
‘But no one ever goes’ he said
‘Where death has ever played.’
I understood and walked away
As Hope was standing there
With Courage in her afterglow
And the sunlight in her hair.
She said ‘Go home to those you love
This is no place to be,
For if we walk these streets today
Then no one shall be free’.
She threw her light to lead the way
And showed me where to go,
The very road that life had gone
Where the future flowers grow.
Then death showed me another way
But I didn’t want to look,
So I stumbled home in time for tea
And I read another book.
It was called The World is Closed Today
And the streets we shouldn’t roam,
The first line said ‘Just please be safe’
And the ending - ‘Stay at Home’ stay safe.

[Theland]

That upset me Rowan. So sad.

[rowanwitch]

A police friend has copied it for her colleagues, she said it was accurate.

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks for that, Rowan.

PS I have a heart... it just recoils from anything overly sentimental.

[Ken4155]

Poetry, like humour, is subjective. No doubt the author was in a reflective mood when composing it. I rather like it - then again, as author of a fe poems of a reflective nature - I would, wouldn't I.
On the subject of authorship of the work; When my dad died in 2007, my daughter composed a poem which she read out at his funeral service. Then she placed the embossed poem on his gravestone. Some months later, her poem appeared online with the 'poster' claiming to have written it. Many of my daughter's friends shot this imposter down in flames which forced a rather sheepish apology from her to my daughter.

[Bobbisox1]

Ken happened to me similarly but through sadness, like others on FB there’s normally a local group , a place where you grew up etc, I wrote a piece about my place of birth and the happy place it was when growing up, I then was alerted, a troll ( no , no one from here) had taken it as their own and was loving the plaudits he got from it, saddo ;0)

[Ken4155]

Loved that, Rowan. Very 'hard hitting'.

[rowanwitch]

It's why I post on Facebook first as it date \times.

[Bobbisox1]

// but not through sadness///

[Ken4155]

Entirely agree, Bobbisox.

[iluvmargie]

All those poems brought a tear to my eye, especially the one about a poor abused woman. The world is truly a sad and sorry place right now.

[SparklyKid]

Missed Blackpool Bobbs, will try catch up later, cheers.

[Bobbisox1]

It was good in a nostalgic way but two I couldn’t stand were appearing there,Mike and Bernie Winters, I mean what were they about FGS @ SK

[jakep]

Rowan, I do not have sufficient words.
I feared the rise in domestic violence from day one of lockdown.
I am safe now but the thoughts will never leave.

[Vagus]

Am not keen on Bobbisox poem but goodness me, Rowan, that is excellent.
I really fear for many who are locked down with partners who are difficult at the best of times..what’s it like now?

[rowanwitch]

I dread to think, but women's aid and other charities have been advertising and representatives have been on tv quite a bit.

[Bobbisox1]

Not actually ‘my poem’ Vagus but I do agree Rowans is the one that hits home on all sides