"No Postcode Envy"

"No Postcode Envy"

Stands alone, waving them off

Wants to chat, gives a small cough

Ignored again, the others descend

Leaving her lonely, without a friend

She gazes after, they enter a caff

Having a chat, having a laugh

She walks past in the pouring rain

By herself, she must remain

With her youngest, softplay she goes

Once there, no-one she knows

Pairs of mums, happily engage

To her child she reads page by page

Finally at the school gates

Enters a convo, suggests some dates

Coffee at hers, after school play

Frosty silence and looks, said no way

When she walked away, she overheard

"have you seen where she lives, how absurd"

They turned abruptly and walked head to head

Nothing more could she hear, they had said

She knew how they felt about her neighbourhood

Didn't get it though, her neighbours were good

Never had a bit of trouble in all the years there

To judge on a postcode is just so unfair

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