Sep 12, 2016

poverty ...a bit more

Fifty years ago, Ken Loach was the young director of Cathy Come Home, a BBC Play for Today, filmed in documentary style and watched by 12 million. Cathy, her lorry driver husband, and two children, live happily in a flat. He has an accident and loses his job, so they move to lodgings, a caravan, a hostel. Cathy becomes a single parent and her children become homeless. Social workers finally take the children into care. The public were moved and enraged.

this was repeated recently and l want to find the correct time to watch having recorded the programme from TV

World keeps on hurting
hurting those vulnerable
those experiencing hardship
those unable too..
benefit claimant so often the case for reprisals and scorn
Rejected and hurt . . powerless

The poverty l know and have witnessed, its conditional
By that l mean  goes with where you came from, The journey taken
 A role played, the situation finds oneself in, Circumstances around that,
Then illness visits, unemployment arrives.
You’re in the system and it grips person, that family, the locality.
Nothing to do with the persona and any failings they reflect

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Storms....huge weather variates at present

Huge winds brought chills waves and stormy conditions Despite this turmoil Got dressed, got out. Excitement conversation's  Pictures and...

MAYBE WE WON`T MEET AGAIN

. . . she got a postcard in the mail
That just said Heaven,with a picture of the ocean and the beach
The simple words he wrote her
Said he loved her
How he'd hold her if his arms would reach
Wish you were here, wish you could see this place
Wish you were near,Wish I could touch your face
The weather's nice, it's paradise
It's summertime all year and there's some folks we know
They say, "Hello, "
I miss you so, wish you were here"