On the Impending Demolishment of the Harewood Dams

For decades now we've swam, we've played and on the grass, in sunshine laid. A haven for our meditations visited by our many generations. Pristine beauty, nature's pride, and now, bereft, tears we've cried. To be destroyed, torn asunder. Governments decree, a total blunder. Safety issues is their claim, so our park they now defame. This decision, we don't understand, upcoming destruction of community land. Other solutions they will not hear. Their stubbornness abundantly clear. We now say goodbye to memories of wandering through paths of trees beside the lakes of childhood life. Their idea of progress cuts like a knife. For decades now we've swam and played and on the grass, in sunshine laid. A haven for our meditations that's been stolen from future generations.