Flankers - a Snapshot

I broke the stone that built the roads, my friend And when through college my escape came I was the first to that place they sent So this telephone line This school This post office This clinic And a community council that pined for me and died It was the way I paid them back Netty Scarlett Trevor Hylton And the unsung heroes that believed And walked the road with us When we were rolling up our sleeves And telling the authority if they agreed Give us a little room and a little seed I like to see things grow We planted there our dream Transforming the landscape To accommodate civilization They only had to water and to weed To reap and claim forever The fruits where our dream succeeded You have added signpost to every road But someone did not weed The place is littered now with so many bad seeds *** The fruiting forest has faded fast The sandy bars are submerged The athletic prowess did not last Night comes here like a dirge On community and hope Character tethers from a Judas rope That will not break Only salt can the sea harvest yields And all the time the prophets templed silent brood On shrines like houses decimating the wood And time suddenly their hopes reversing And fear crisscrosses the roads The abandoned heart traverses