Changing Scenery.

The bomb sites

have gone now

the places we roamed

and played

have apartments

and offices there now.

There where we gathered

small stones for catapults

or rode imaginary horses

across the ruins of war

in our childhood games

have been built over

and cover our playgrounds

of the aftermath

of German bombs

and the blitz.

They still exist

in my memory

those places

and you and I

and gunfights

in our cowboy scenes

and watching the coal lorries

load up with sacks of coal

at the coal wharf

no longer there

but in my mind

I see it all still

if I stand and stare.

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

Time eventually hides all things, until only memories exist. Now offices and playgrounds hide the evidence of the horrors of the blitz. Of course, the playgrounds are headed for the same fate.

[Terry Collett]

Thank you John