| Nine Months
After nine months a baby was born,
And it's name was hate, and it's heart was torn,
never to be seen a smile on the face,
Of the men waiting so long, in this goddam place.
God help the world, if it only knew,
What hate would become, if it ever grew,
Into an adult, and then got free,
To surely destroy the whole world and all me.
For, after the beasts had had their way,
Lied and deceived to lock men away,
The Magistrates, fine, all turned their blind eyes,
It's enough to make prison chaplains all cry!
Month after month they stay on remand,
Listen in mystery over conspired bad plans,
Never allowed one word in defence,
The legal system, here, just don't make much sense.
So locked up these men, at county's
expense,
Guilty or innocent, they sit on a fence,
Awaiting their trials in some distant day,
When men either walk free, or get thrown away.
After nine months inside, away from the
sky,
The birds and the trees and the friendships that die,
The children, the life and the lovers won't wait
And innocent and guilty have hearts full of hate
Cardiff Prison 1991
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