The Wrecking Ball

She stood forlorn behind the chain link fence Her mortared bricks still clinging to the earth A battle lost with every gasping breath Against the war of time and death A monument behind a chain link moat Reveals a glimpse of what had been supreme With boarded eyes, the windows that watched us learn Where teachers stood and wrote our names upon the board And gave us wealth, while we absorbed Like sponges, soaked, we kept in places stored But each piece of what I've taken from this place Became in part of what I would become So little did we know while we were young How swiftly flies the time from when we're thrown Into the world of vast unknowns So far away from all our childhood comfort zones... My dreams still play with friendships now long gone Yet holding hands our shadows linger on Laughter rings, as feet run through the halls How sad it is to see it now For soon the wrecking ball will force this giant to it's knees I see the ghost of children at their games Racing beyond their childhood in the shade Red wagons pull my childhood back in time Farewell to time, she was a grand old school of mine