Firstly I know the gramer, and spelling leaves alot to be desired
but what do you think of the content?
Park Hill
note, park hill is a housing block in shefield U.K anyone who has been
through shefield knows the place! The poem is veiwing it from an
outsiders percpective and a negative one at that, not a factual account
of what it is really like to live there, just a poem about what I thought
it would be like to live there.
On to the poem,
Why did they build you, what are you for?
To house the familys that are many,
to shelter the poor?
What is it that hangs over you, that oppresive feel?
Its like the worrys and cares of your many inhabitants
have been rubbed into your walls like stains of long suffering
crumbling into cold concrete. Yet they tell me your listed,
I say your rotten meat.
For over 50 years you were left to decay and rot, though from the day you was built,
I say you were long forgot! Gray grim and bleak,damp cramped and many leaks.
A multi-sorry-story of what someones bad idea can reap.
Scar of the north, eyesore of the skys, you are just a building,
yet you make me wonder why.
Hope and fear, hate and tears, crime and lies in some 50 past years.
You have a story to tell, in 50 or so years of all kinds of Hell
of all the lives within you, where the unfortunate people dwell.
A monument to despair, may you allways stand there, Park hill.
For if not there, then stand somewhere ellse you surely will.
2006-08-25
11:08:18
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surfer soul
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