Waving.......

Stevie Smith's words have been banging around in my head today and I feel the need now to let them go.

But I can’t.

The words?

“I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning…..
…………
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.”

So much is changing and the world that we knew seems to be shrouded in a mist that gets thicker by the day. In that murky swirl the worry about making ends meet becomes ever more present for so many.

The bounce and buoyancy of a community is challenged by the draconian changes that threaten, as always, the less well off.

So perhaps when we look back and thought folk were merrily waving we might see that they were in fact sadly drowning.