Memories
The village where I grew up
Used to have a heart,
Then they built a dual carriageway
And tore the place apart.
There's houses on the churchfields
Where once the cattle grazed,
And on sunny summer afternoons
Amongst buttercups we lazed.
The village school was knocked down
Several years ago,
To build a block of offices,
It fills me full of woe.
The playground now has disappeared
Where we used to have such fun,
Nothing would deter us,
Winter's cold or summer sun.
Some would say it`s progress,
But this I cannot see,
Those things have gone forever,
That meant so so much to me.
It's become another suburb,
So what is plain to see,
The village I remember
Is just a memory.
June Cox 2009
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