Rows of eager faces <br />smile at me <br />from the front page <br />of the Age <br />this morning. <br />Friendly faces, <br />familiar faces. <br />Some old and crusty, <br />others, <br />terribly young. <br /> <br />Rows of eager faces <br />(too many of them) <br />are no longer with us. <br />They died <br />last Saturday - <br />suffocated <br />in their cars, <br />in their homes. <br />Swallowed by an inferno <br />that engulfed <br />without malice, <br />without warning. <br /> <br />Rows of eager faces, <br />are neatly folded now. <br />I can’t quite <br />bring myself <br />to throw them away.<br /><br />Alison Cassidy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rows-of-eager-faces/
