The tenement block rose from below

Almost reaching Heaven's door

Poor pensioners live at ground floor level

Hassled nightly by the devil

While in the clouds above

Live single mothers giving love

To cherished children

Living in a cloud filled sky

Yearning for a meadow sweet

Upon which to place their feet

What future for them is offered

In these impoverished times

Job centre or life of crime?

They see no role models for to copy

And are thwarted from their destiny

Prams and children crowd the stairway

For the lift is out of order

Smashed by vandals in disarray

Going about their daily play.

What hope can be given these dispossessed

Enduring life in Heaven's nest? Mr I Platt, Thornton Avenue, Heaton

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.