Jenny Linsel Poet Rhyme

Back To My Roots

Back to my Roots

I returned home to see my folks
After being away too long
Found my way back to my family home
But everyone was gone

Where has everybody gone?
My family and my friends
I needed to come home 
I needed to make amends

I drove past the factories
Where my ancestors worked nights
They were deserted and ramshackled 
Surrounded by building sites

I looked through a broken window
And was amazed by what I'd seen
My late Grandfathers overcoat
Still draped over his machine

The birthplace of my friends 
And their parents long before
Had been replaced by high-rise tower blocks 
Floor upon floor upon floor

All the old shops replaced by a shopping mall
Old houses replaced by council estates
Lifelong workers now on the dole
The government blind to their fates

I feel so out of place
And my mind is filled with fear
My hometown is no longer familiar
Why did I come back here?

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