Poem: Who Destroyed Grenfell Tower?

by Lauren-Lilly Prentice

Let’s have some chicken for dinner

Mother said to her kids

But she was yet to know her fate

Please help her God forbid

With the chicken in the oven

She went to lie and rest

But she did not set her alarm

Because she was so stressed

‘Twas only when she heard the ring

Of the fire alarm

She panicked and screamed for her kids

So that they would not come to harm

But her kids kept ignoring her

They kept playing their game

For they thought the bell was for fun

Because they saw no flame

Soon the small kitchen was engulfed

And mother said her prayers

She held her children in her arms

Her eyes full of despair

If only she’d set her alarm

They could’ve had dinner

But now hundreds of lives are lost

She is thought a sinner

But it could’ve been the building

The cladding was made poor

If only it was fire-tested

There wouldn’t have been an uproar

So which one started the fire?

You now have the power

The mother or the poor design?

Who destroyed Grenfell Tower?