still waiting after twenty-one months, for the truth to emerge...

The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square

Is now, as ever, the centre of somewhere...

But as well as being the iconic meeting place

It has now become a famously empty space.

Where once, for one hundred days

2,400 people enacted thousands of one- hour plays.

When merely sitting brooding in a chair,

Became a kind of truth to share,

With the lonely figure, set up there,

Staring down into the thronging square.

Some danced in spangles, or made themselves a spectacle,

Or made their body into a flowing song.

Or made grave music, or rocked along.

Or stood up to protest the potent truth

With banners and tee-shirts and placards…

Or silent prayer.

Freed balloons carried a freight of names,

As streams of bubbles, sparkling in the air...

Each hour of the day brought a different tale.

Those in the shadow hours, illuminated from below,

Caught on the internet, briefly peopled our dreams.

A sense of something invincible carried through the night

Into the coming dawn.

What was it? A shared feast of hopes and schemes,

This life, with two thousand and four hundred themes...

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