It's amazing how often ordinary people who have been the victims of shocking injustice turn to poetry to express themselves. Chances are, there's a poet next to you.
I want to publish these stories whenever I find them, because they say more than I can say about our fight for truth and justice.
So here's the first of the British column poets:
Social Welfare
Anne Murray
In modern times,
Compliance is rife in our health and social care services.
And if you tell them that the system is not right,
Be prepared for a fight, for you will fight.
They twist the issue: to them we are all the same.
They will take away your dignity and humiliate you.
Doing so will leave you abandoned and left to suffer a bureaucratic fate.
We are targeted by social sharks who use our babies as bait.
The destruction of the family is their only goal.
It is clear that the social welfare system has no soul.
