Black Tulips of Pentre Gardens

Like two book ends hunched

Paul & Mary rock back and forth

Peter is on the scrounge.

I've seen them before looking through the railings

listing like sheaves of corn

inner city sadness

the tiniest triangle of Green

an oasis surrounded by judgemental houses

keeping people apart,

not their real names obviously. 

I'm thinking of the trio who left on a Jet Plane 

the gate is open, they can go in but they are

paralysed by fear.

They are/were somebody's children.

See the adult, look for the child inside.

What happened?

Should I go and take them by the hand 

and lead them to the promised land

of Pentre Gardens?