YESTERDAY PEOPLE EATING YESTERDAY FOOD


Yesterday People read by the author

Let me take you to the City

Streets of gold for the loud and rude

Gilt ridden movers avoid glance into doorways

Where yesterday people eat yesterday food


Here we walk these streets of London

Dickensian Carol brought to mind

By the gaunt, peaked face and the dog companion

Patiently standing in for the human kind


In that face, those eyes so deep

Hidden Eyes is to make stone weep

A risen Lord lets drop a tear

Foresaken yet, no one sees him here


In the dark recess, light dimmer

Shimmer faces we have known

Our child's face in cauldron simmer

Yesterday's food made with yesterday's bones


And the dog watches on with patience sublime

A knowledge so deep of the human mind

Which passes in plenty to acquire yet more

Or lies in the gutter against the closed door


So how can you tell me that you are lonely?

How can you say that you are blue?

When in shadow and despondent doorway

Lie Lives to be claimed by Act of You

Where destiny met will change your mood

Where yesterday people eat yesterday food