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Six Minutes Past Three in the Afternoon

Emily Williams

Sunday, June 17th, 2012

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Tick-Tock goes the clock
The noise calling me
LIke a siren’s song
And so I look,
I look at the clock
And there it is again.
That time, never to be forgot
The time when football stopped.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 And players were led off the pitch
As those in the Lepping’s Lane,
Tried to save one another
As the police begin to realise
Something’s gone horribly wrong
But they’re not doing anything.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Now the players are looking on
With those other fans
Those lucky ones
Not in the Lepping’s Lane
Tragedy unfolding before their eyes
Images never to be forgotten

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Now, now its twenty three years later
And a Liverpool fan
Who wasn’t born at the time
Looks at the clock
And sees that, the time once more is
Six minutes past three in the afternoon
And she can’t help but to think,
To think of Hillsborough
At six minutes past three in the afternoon.

© Emily Williams

Notes

Recently I’ve noticed that I always seem to look at the time when its six minutes past three, a time of day that is of course very poignant to any true football fan.

YNWA JFT96

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/six-minutes-past-three-in-the-afternoon/