Marie Matthews was strong willed and used to getting her own way. Tel Barker was a hardened crime boss who believed that women should know their place. They were a very unlikely match, but what bound them together was their hunger for power, and their willingness to commit barbaric acts in order to reach their goal. Their marriage brought about many unwelcome changes in the London underworld. Rival gangland boss Pete Farrow was stunned to hear that Marie was intent on becoming an active member of the Barker firm. He used intimidation tactics to show her that she didn't belong in the lifestyle, and only realised that he had underestimated her when she retaliated by carrying out a number of astonishingly brutal attacks on his men. Her rise to prominence was swift, and together with her husband she swept through South East London, destroying anybody who got in their way . It was suddenly becoming very clear that the Barker firm's reign of terror had only just begun.
I sat so merry in my abode
Loving hands around me
I dreamt of such glorious days
One day i would see
I remember the day I left
My room
I closed the door behind me
One quick look again
Then walked away
The room which would always remind me
The glorious days I had dreamt
I did merrily spent
How little did I then know
Life turns on a dime
My room is now not as it was
When I closed the door
Behind me
My room now is a prison
But not how one would invision
It is one of sorrow and grief
Sadness burns into the bare walls
I catch my breath
And weep
Why did thou'st doth betray?
The room which once embraced me
I ask with riddled heart
Jagged and torn
Which wicked riddles have I thus sought?
I sit still
I am now my room
No dreams as once before
I age before my open door
In my room long ago
I sat merrily in my loving abode
Loving hands did hold me
All gone
My room and myself
Now one
Two thrust to be together
Forever
Alone