Unbroken grey day

Burns and brooks still and gentle

Trees turned to timber

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Dreich is the only word

Atmosphere turgid and thick

Muffled sound wound tight

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Ruined bastle stands

Amid the crowded forest

Rooted in the past

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React and rebel

Skater girls with skater boys, dance

Naked in the cold

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Sodium lamp lit streets

Nightlife mirrored in grim pools

Ae last kiss, goodbye

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Early day shopping

Hot buttered window dressing

Buy me or eat me

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Rain splattered windscreen

On the late bus home, sweet home

Darkness eats the road

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Beneath the castle

Keep, where the daffodils spring

From the fields of blood

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Return to the fray

After a night of deep sleep

Let the day begin