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Southern Stories

Coming to the South I wonder

where did all the stories go? 

Like a giant library

the marsh mud holds legends of old times 

the trees drink memories 

buried deep in their great oak trunks


Living history 


has died 


their footsteps have long been erased by the tides 


Were their deaths peaceful, I wonder? 

That there are no ghosts to haunt us 

with their history 


Drowned by petroleum spills

and dolled up as white sand beaches 

Faces changing beyond recognition 


© 2024 Marieke de Koker

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