Liberated by the escalator

One step at a time

Away from corridors

Draughted by departing trains

Where they didn’t mind the gap

Between east and west

Blasting their way past buskers

On a mayoral dome

But left me to escape the inferno

For a peep into the world above

Cameos of what’s to come

As Transport for London advertises

The better life with Mama Mia

And me

Saying Abba Father

Deliver us from evil.

 

July 2010

 

To Andre, a lover of the London Underground,
and to those who died - on the fifth anniversary of the London Bombings