A Bag Is For Life

A BAG IS FOR LIFE! The posters scream Meat, raw and bloody Falls from re used carriers Thin with over use Onto the wet car park. A BAG IS FOR LIFE! Buy one today! Screams the sign By the check out till As it eats up the pounds From overloaded trolleys A BAG IS FOR LIFE! Made of sackcloth and ashes. Why ashes? The remnants of life. Because today, I saw, Image's of the Bosnian war; Body upon body, upon body Buried in plastic bags; And I wanted to scream, A BAG IS FOR LIFE! Footnote; this poem was inspired by images from the Bosnian war, taken By Giles Penfound. The images I saw affected me deeply and this poem was written.