> An Ode To Coal
>
> Decimation of The Coal industy
> 1980`s
>
> With power perfection machines of the mines,
> lie silent, dormant, unwanted, no longer required,
> The victims of change, their purpose expired,
> Irrespective of reason, or performance in time.
> By ruthless exploiters- their fortunes to seek
> regardless of merit, with measures of greed,
> Conditions by politics- encouraged by few.
> Abandoned the operators, with contributions ignored
> In times of misfortune,wars or of national discord,
> Sacrificed on altars of private ownership acclaimed
> Condemed to the past- the future distained.
> The lives of the workers to the scrapheap commited.
> Where ! for what reasons ? improperly addressed!!
> Such acts are permitted and ruthlessly processed.
>
> Charles Round - December 1999
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