Whenever I hear the announcement, ‘Mind the gap’, or see a sign for it, my mind jumps to the other meanings it might have – the mental gap, the gap between people, and ‘mind’ meaning to beware or to be aware…
There are several poems with this as a theme; there are stories about the gap between an old life and a new future, another is the gap between rich and poor, and the gap between people of different ethnicity:
For years she took the morning train
from Auburndale to Penn.
Now the economy had turned cold
And her long run neared its end.
John F. McCullagh
Mind the Gap between the rich and the poor
If nothing is done it will extend even more
The rich live on Excess Island in the middle of Deprived Sea
when the wealth of the world is enough to satisfy everybody
David Neita
Sitting alone watching the tube trains roll
Up to the bustling platform, It arrives.
Lights from deep within the black hole
Excite her; They keep his memory alive.
http://www.theroyalberkshirepoetrycompetition.org/294-mind-the-gap/
From conception to womb –
Please mind the gap..
From cradle to spoon –
Please mind the gap!
From totter to school –
Please mind the gap!
From childhood to fool –
Please mind the gap
Lynda M Roberts
Please mind the gap.
Yes please mind the gap between you and me.
The gap caused solely by ethnicity
And the hue of the skin that covers me
200 years after the abolition of slavery
So please mind the gap.
Sarah Olowofoyeku
– to see and hear Sarah : http://www.poetrystation.org.uk/poems/please-mind-the-gap/
Lois Elsden 