Kenny O\'Donnell

Redmarsh

Mindlessly I stroll

Along the beach.

Sand soaked by the tides.

Rainbow array of pebbles pockel my way 

And seaweed scented breeze

Draws snake like wisps

Of sand over the dunes

 

Ahead of me another giant

Falls, crumbling industry into smoke and dust.

Demolished towers, furnace.

Once proud now pieces 

Making way for the new or nothing.

 

Behind, collapsing cliffs

Stolen away by the sea

Erroding closer and closer.

And inch or a mile each day.

 

Decay surrounds me, my home,

Childhood memories 

Man and mother nature

A vendetta against a town 

Condemned to history 

With no place in the future.