BEHIND BARS
I write about what I see…
If you don’t want me to see it
Close the TV channels down
I write about what I see…
If you don’t want me to scroll up and down
Close the internet down
I write about what I hear…
If you don’t want me to listen
Put all the people behind bars
Though I fear, the truth
May slip through the cracks
COME BACK THE COUNTRY I LOVE
Come back the country I love
Come back and put
Food on my table
Come back and bring me
Peace and Love
No one is excluded
and I belong here again
Not trembling over words
Or the bang at the door
It is you who don’t belong here
anymore
Come back
Come back
the country I love
THIS IS HAPPENING
This is not happening
This you can’t see
The prison cells are filling
Whilst you digest the lies on TV
This is not happening
This you can’t see
You play deaf dumb and blind
Until you see
This is happening
This you can see
Your brother your mother your father
Taken away
Live on TV
CHEERING YOUR GENOCIDE
Every time I let the tap run, I feel guilty
Every time I fill my belly, I turn away from the screen
Every time the key clicks to my door, I can open and walk around
But you and yours are raised to the ground,
No guilt from those who cheer on your genocide.
DEAD SOUL
There is no limit
Because babies are still born
And each by being alive is dead
The last straw a family of nine wiped off this earth
But there are fields and fields of such dead souls.
SOMEONE IS KILLED
Everyday someone is Killed on your street. . .
No one says or does anything to help . . .
It’s not your street. . .
But everyday someone is killed on a Gaza Street
A human being just like you and me.
David R Mellor is from Liverpool, England. He spent his late teens homeless on Merseyside. He is currently writing and performing in Turkey. His work has been featured by the BBC and the Tate, and his published collections of poetry are What a Catch (2012, Some Body (2014), Express Nothing (2019) and So This Is It (2020). His collection of stories An Englishman in Turkey (Turkiye’De Bir Ingililiz) has recently been published .
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