MID-CRAIGIE

MID- CRAIGIE    

A.D. Foote

The trees they planted here six years ago

Failed to take root.

Instead, the ground sprouted

Aerosols, dog turds, cans and bottles.

The middle-aged, who still remember the slums

Now older, pass by, hunch-backed,

Looking for something on the ground,

Something of value they lost long ago,

Before these fields were built upon.

Only the ever-living children shout and leap

At their unending play,

Growing up in a different world.

 

Description: Stuck to a brick buttress in an alley at the back of the HappyHillock Shopping Centre.

Geotag co-ords:  56.481757, -2.929573

Date: 20.06.14