Jeffree Michael #61 The day we met Barnsie

Clouds ominous
too quickly
rain suddenly
pissing down

racket banging
knocking doors
a gaggle 6 to ten yrs
twisted faces crying

from the streets
not around here
didn't know east to west
passed the grove couldn't find no bridge

just kids scared
like the rest
there's only one thing sadder than the cold and rain
on your knees lost and frightened

nerves got their best
blamed each other
mum be worried proud
stuck together brothers glue

brought inside
a biscuit or two
toweled and rescued
all of a sudden chatty boasters

them cheeky rascals all smiling
in the car almost home
kids here grew up too fast
need love hugs and someone

lost boys never seen again
somehow etched
within
all messed up in Elizabeth town

between beige and metal
unrealised little grey dreams
toughest kids ever seen
squint bright light on flat dry faces

like Jimmy some escaped
not heroes but somehow
another chance to get it right
coming good on all those fights

making sense only now
looking back
to struggle town
lost we were found

standing on the outside