Lines of Life - Part Three (1/3) By Paul England

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About a year passed and my dad had met this bird, Sue. After a month or so she was moving in while we were getting pushed out. My dad had said that we would always come first but he lied. I remember one night I started arguing with Sue. I called her a silly cow and my dad grabbed me round the neck. I ran out and I said 'I'm going to my mams'. Our Gemma came with me, our Dave stayed with my dad, our Mike got his own place with his bird who was having his kid and he started selling pot. You see, in the year I'd lived with my dad he didn't buy us a thing. I didn't even have a school uniform 'cos he pissed all the money up the wall. So my mam got a bigger place, me and Gem moved in with her and her bloke Kev. He was a bit of a dick but he was not a problem.

A Child Who Came So Pure As I lay and dream at night Why do I think so deep? For is that just my soul That I see within my sleep What is this world about? Why do we live to die? Where is the God we doubt? Why is the sky so high? For them still taking life Knowing we're all the same But a human life is priceless Can God now feel my pain? For my pain still bears the scars For a poor man's just so weak Why are a child's mistakes? Inside these words I speak As children still die today But they just need a meal For all the greedy people Just imagine how they feel So where is your love for life For this place is just one earth Where the greatest things come free Like a mother blessed with birth This place just seems so crazy Sometimes I just feel sad For a child who came so pure To a world of good and bad

My old lady tried to get me back to school but by this time I had missed too much to do any good so I left. I only went back for three days, waited till I turned 16 and started looking for a job. I had moved back down north where all my mates lived. I remember riding about on my push hog every day for about two weeks looking for work, then one of our Jonny's mates got me in at a wood yard backing a saw off. I used to work with a lad called Huey, he was spot on, I'll always have time for him. If I was to pick a godfather to my son then that would be him. He used to take me round town with him and his brothers, it was sound.

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Copyright ©2007  Paul England

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