Shane and Mabel

                             SHANE& MABEL

       The Shanes and Waynes

Are just the same

As Cain

And, as much to blame,

For Mabel as for Abel

And though it happens all the time

These days, don’t suppose that God is fine

With the way it goes time after time

It doesn’t make Sky News

But the blood of all the Abels and the Mabels too

Still cries out from the ground

And God’s broken outrage pounds

(Poor reception from the sky- can’t hear a sound) 

           But it’s 

crime after crime these days

time after time those days

heydays of slaydays

these days and those days

mayday mayday

those days most days 

it’s all the same 

it’s getting worse 

almost like

we’re under a…..

               

   And God’s tears fall like bloody rain

   On some to set a mark of Cain

    Not to curse but to reclaim

    These children from the road 

                                                     to eternal pain.

                              

                                                           

                                                               WILF 01 2008