Not Saving But Drowning

Everybody heard him, the dead migrant
But still they say, moaning:
Our compassion’s much further out than you thought
And not saving but drowning.

With apologies to Stevie Smith.

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Richard

Training company boss by day. Poet and a whole heap of other things by night. Plus the son of a mother who was killed in a care home while living with dementia.

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