Requiem for a Paradise Lost
by Robin Lee
Shelby
Gone in time are the places
of my youth
Worn away by the ravages of
timeTrees have been felled
Old buildings torn down
Roads laid to connect them
Industry where once lay fallow fields
Swamps shrunken for RV parks
Muskrat have no habitat
The bayou clogged with trash
Trees grown wild around abandoned homes
Trapper’s shacks rotting away
Old cypress trees long since cut down
Swamps reclaiming their own
And that is what I saw
But I shall try to forget it all
And remember it as it was
Neighbors far apart
Mile upon mile of sugar cane fields
Bayous and swamps clean and pure
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