Alone on the plateau
Alone above the town.
Sadness consumes my soul
Sitting here Watching,
Watching the people scurry by,
Scurrying from A to B,
From Here to There.

Sixty-four years upon this Earth,
Sixty-four years of Toil and Trouble,
Sixty-four years to make some Money.
But now i'm Ditched;
'Too Old' to make any Money
'Too Old' to make a Profit for the state.

So now i've been Left
Abandoned, and Left to Die.
Alone on the plateau
Alone above the town

Alone...

Chris McKenna 18/07/96 Written the night after listening to a radio program about self harm	Back to poetry index Back to main index
Copyright (C) Chris Mckenna 1996.