Commercial Road

Brought up in South London there are parts

Of the city I have never known

I went to the museums and had grown

Assuming that the West End was the heart

Of any interest;but these latter days,

Walking the canal and staying in

Whitechapel, I feel I can begin

To understand the multiferious ways

Of the East End and all that it has meant

To generations sparked from 'over there'

(The regions that we ravished) and aware

How limited my chilhood vision, pent

          Into a world where we were all the same

          And other races, no more than a name.

Brian Hick 6.6.09

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