Empty Places For The Homeless?

 


As I drive through the small villages in the French Countryside near Limoges

many houses shut up with no one inside.

A beautiful castle all closed with the people all gone.

Abandoned? Maybe not. Empty and standing alone for sure,

and yet there are homeless so what is wrong.

The disconnect from the reality.

The problem of the new society now.

Who will care for the castles, the houses and farms

empty of the people who gave them life before.

As we drive through the villages and see how empty they are,

the young people gone, looking for a place to work as there is no paid work there or here anymore.

There is no trust to allow the work that is evident there to be done by those who have nothing except their youth and energy to give.

They could breathe life into neglected spaces and change them into something else,

yet these places that are empty stay empty and unloved.

Only the rich have enough to manage to stay.

Old men and women who live out the rest of their life in distance from the young.

It is the young who bring life to the villages, 

who ensure their continuity into future times,

but no one seems to know this and so places stay shut and the homeless stay homeless. 





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mistakes

Image
  The mistakes that we make in our life are the teachers in the journey. We   may not notice the mistake or brush it off but by taking notice and learning the lesson that is being taught at the time will prevent the mistake from reoccurring and even at greater force than before. I have made many mistakes in my life and unfortunately as a sometimes-slow learner in life’s classroom I have experienced the harsh realities that come with such repeated mistakes. With all mistakes made and especially where they hurt another I reflect later and then suffer internally for what I have said and done. Sometimes an apology from ones heart will correct an error made against another but as a wise woman once said to me after I bruised her spirit with my impulsive, ungoverned harsh words, “I do not have to accept your apology”. That statement was a big wake up call for me at the time and has sat with me for a long time after possibly moderating my words towards others to be less hurtful and ...
Read more

The Power of Trees

Image
My arrival here in France coincides with late Autumn or early Winter. Naturally it means beautiful colours in all the trees and shrubs that lose their leaves when the cold really arrives. The fruit trees that grow locally such as the Brugonon, which is a favourite of the local Catalon people of this area, and which is a cross between a peach and a plum, have almost all lost their leaves with the end of the fruiting season. Photo courtesy of  Helen Parkes Of course in the Southern hemisphere they are experiencing the growth that comes with the late spring and early summer so everything is green and colourful in a very different way. Look at the picture opposite. This is the Pohutukawa or Native Christmas Tree which can be found in the northern coastal areas of Aotearoa, New Zealand.  The flowers are loved by bees and the honey is a creamy white, sweet and delicious. The tree itself offers welcome shade at the beach for those who wish to avoid the damaging rays of a NZ summer su...
Read more

The Red Sky

Image
The sky flamed red today A reminder that rain can come The colours came into my heart filling the soul with sun power I remember the mornings of light feeling the presence of the natural world  Beauty not reliant on humanity The bells around the necks of the cows clanging in the distance during the dark too early even for birdsong Then as the sky changes to orange and then yellow the birds sing they welcome a new day of feasting I loved watching the sunrise its majesty and strong energy contained in the colour of a blood heart beating out the day to come.
Read more