Recently I sent some poetry off to a competition run by Dark Poets Club and was really pleased to hear back that my poem “Truncated” had received an honourable mention and has since been published on the Dark Poets Club website.

Quite often my writing is a response to some of the appalling behaviour of those with most power in the world and Truncated is one such poem. In just a few lines it reminds us of the hard that can follow from a decision taken among the noise and hot-heady atmosphere of even supposedly modern and democratic governments:

Truncated

The first bombs were launched
through the “Aye” lobby

And unaware
the soon to be victims,
continued their brief
truncated lives
for a little while

Greeted by soul-less
self-serving cheers
from both sides of The House