We waited
We Waited
Oh why are we waiting
He was only the greatest
There was not enough room in the shoe for more than one
Why did they wait with us?
Hangers on
Goal Hangers
Manchester Munchkins
Sitting on the fence as always
And then there was the childhoos romance
The one without a ballroom dance
The doctor in Bath
The fat lady singing at the NHS
The nigger lady of the land who would not undress
Guinevere set free at last
Free at last
Thank Martin Luther King Jr she is free at last.

And King Arthur was never again seen on the simple shores of England
As the land was cleansed of naturalists and the nationals who rinsed the Lingam
And set the land dry.

AI Summary

The poem mourns a childhood world of heroes, legends, and imagined greatness, now tangled with waiting, loss, and cultural confusion. It blends Arthurian myth, civil‑rights echoes, NHS corridors, and English streets to show how innocence and identity get reshaped by time. The speaker confronts prejudice, memory, and the collapse of old stories, searching for meaning in a land that feels altered and emptied. In the end, it becomes a reflection on myth and belonging — how the stories we inherit shape what we hope to be, even as they fade.