Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:54 PM
old, disused well
partially hidden by the tall lallang,
constantly shrouded by a web of folklore and grandmother tales.
the children were warned never to go near
and neither curiousity nor rebellion could rouse them to
disobey.
and so it was, that the well slowly faded from the memories
of both living and dead,
like the gentle bleaching out of photographs.
one didn't even notice its absence
till the bulldozers came, ready to transform the quiet solace
of the field into yet more stacks of paper and figures.
and the groups of foreign workers stood round the forgotten memory,
in quiet awe of the reconcilation of time