Cricklewood Personified

Cricklewood is a town, and a family.  There is the general store, who is the mother that provides for her children.  She gives them food, and clothes, and medicine.  She doesn’t turn them away, even when she should.  That’s a mother for you, but the father, he is the law of the house.  He is the court, the judge, and the jury; passing judgment upon his brood sternly and without emotion.  He towers above the town reminding the children to obey his rules.  His sternness is only tempered by an uncle, a “brother” in fact.  He is the Church and believes in the goodness of people and their temperance.  He looks through rose colored glasses and sees untainted people.  But only one person sees the people truly.  An old man, the jail, he has sat in that square since Cricklewood was founded.  He has seen good men come and bad men go, both with the passing of years.  They all stand in the square looking in at the children, wondering what will happen next. Personified