THE BALLAD OF READING COUNTY COURT LIFT: IN POETRY

Barrister Rawdon Crozier has put the plight of Reading County Court life into a poem. It speaks for itself, as all good poetry should.

The Ballad of Reading County Court Lift

I never saw a lift which looked

With such a wistful eye

Upon that little shaft of grey

Which elevators travel by,

And at every rising floor that stood

Where lifts are meant to fly..

I walked, with other souls in pain,

Upon another stair,

And was wondering if the lift weren’t broke

I might be sooner there,

When a voice behind me whispered low,

“You should try it in a chair.”

Civil servants kill the things we need

By each let this be heard,

Some do it with a bitter look,

Some without a word,

As with a sad and broken lift,

Whose cry “Repair me” goes unheard.

© R R C Crozier 2019