Monday, 22 February 2016

Thinking of the 'Hunger' and 'Jarrow' marches'

Heaven will be a place or state of being
which we will reach at the end of all our lives 
where there will be no more pain, 
no more injustice, cruelty or suffering 
but only joy, peace, love and reconciliation.

I once heard Alan Price sing an incredibly moving unaccompanied song about the Jarrow March.
It made me cry.
My father grew up amid the poverty of the North West during these times.
He felt very deeply about such things.
Perhaps this is why I feel the same.