In Council Flats live the forgotten people <br />At the slum end the poorer side of town <br />They live on welfare like their dads before them <br />And from where they live a long hike to renown. <br /> <br />They always wear their football scarves and beanies <br />And take them with them everywhere they go <br />They worship their football teams and football heroes <br />The only sort of culture that they know. <br /> <br />Their addresses they find not to their advantage <br />For employees employers look elsewhere <br />They tend to think that those living in the slum parts <br />Unfit for work and softened from welfare. <br /> <br />With the Council Flats the cops are well acquainted <br />They know it as a breeding ground for crime <br />There are not many there without crime record <br />Who have not been in jail and served out time. <br /> <br />Those born there are born to disadvantage <br />The expectations of them is to fail <br />How can you expect to end up a winner <br />If all your role models have been to jail? . <br /> <br />How can you expect to soar like an eagle <br />If you don't have the powerful wings to fly <br />If you don't have role models to inspire you <br />To have success in life you may not try? . <br /> <br />The politicians only call to see them <br />To beg them for their votes on voting day <br />But when they are elected to high office <br />From council flats they tend to keep away. <br /> <br />By circumstance of birth forgotten people <br />Condemned to life of crime and poverty <br />Still they are less impure in ways than many <br />Who have climbed to highest branch of success tree.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/forgotten-people-3/
