The Impossibility of Escape

Oh London You!

Great Big Dirty Beast!

You!

Cruelly stole my heart

Bit it in two and

I drowned in your splendour

Although this abusive union

Could hardly be described as tender

This nowhere land

So undefined

So concrete & bland

Yet I am still so entwined

In your rude brickwork

Towers jutting into skyline

Piercing holes into the heavy

Grey clouds we worship

Thundering down the levy

We exchanged for love

On our heads

No bracken hills here nor

Chants to raise the dead

Nor wild, native cats

To call me here

Or bring us back

Only a muddy old

River crawling with rats

Framed in Imperial

Brutalist Edifice

Frozen on the bridge

Waiting for the kiss

The life giving

Petrol choke

Swooping down from

That cold stylish lover

Those rare, deep eyes -

Bottomless urban pools –

Yet I long for no other.