Driven on by the economic whip
hurried down from the glen
assuredly ignorant, unread men:
spirited, canny and swift.
Lofty lawgiving legislators wove
a weak and feeble web:
betrayed those in search of a marriage bed;
doomed too: body and soul.
Some took their chance and cast their raft upon
a harsh and vengeful sea:
adrift gave life; beauty couldn't unite thee.
Crude; deliberate done
the line goes on.
Gillian.E. Shaw
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/time-honoured-feud-britain-1980-s/
