Consider This

I used to walk

On my way to school

I’d walk across Hackney Downs

Singing Endlessly

I remember

How people lost their homes

Moved around caught between identities

Now Coffee shops £6 a cup attract a different crowd

A conscious act that soon impacts the council’s disavowal

If I ask you one thing

Will you, Consider This?

Does it feel abrupt?

When council flats becomes mixed income homes

Like their money and class will trickle down

Properties left empty while their owners are abroad

Mean, high rise flats

That no one here would ever dream to afford

I guess

Government cuts mean no leisure for the poor

While the rhetoric from leadership tells us

We can have it all

If I ask you one thing

Will you, Consider This?