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Aberfan
By Inmate47251
07 October 2006
Aberfan

The word still

Floats down the valleys

haunting

those that remember

and remain

 
But please

Keep your

Sentamentaility

To yourselves

Leave our lost generation

Alone

 
Dad

Left his late shift

Down the pits

To claw at

A still moving

Landslide

 
 Anger

Welled up inside him

Not tears

 
This

Was not a tragedy

This was murder

But no-one

Ever paid

 
When coal dust

Strangled miners in their sleep

Their families cried

Did you?


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Written by amethyst (4 comments posted) 5th May 2008
i just came across this. i researched the Aberfan disaster for a novel i am still writing, but decided not to use Aberfan afterall. it cetainly was a tragedy that should never have happened. You conveyed it very well in your poem.

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