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Friday 15 March 2024

'The Best Of Man Is In His Ruins'

My best friend, and a far better blogger
than I am, 
once wrote as a line in a poem.

When I seen the abandoned dwellings
and barns without roofs in the countryside
across County Down, where the ivy could be
holding up the walls, or causing their decline,
I can't help but agree with him, and wish for mine.

I would like my decline to be as quiet and slow
as the buildings that I see are quietly abandoned
that add so much to the landscape. That is my way to go,
as part of a bigger being abandoned, forgotten, and disowned.

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