Ode to Tankman

Sofa in mid-Somerset - 22nd October 2024

In the clamour of chitter chatter and dictat to be right, you were there.

A shining beacon of human soul held so fast up and against itself that not even tanks could pass.

Whilst students lay dead or dying and leaders were sighing or lying;

You simply went on with your business of preserving the clay,

The sand which contained you, carrying bag of groceries in hand,

moved by your own force to forever silence your critics.