milkandone

Edinburgh City

The city has changed
- Graeme Wilson

The city has changed
in my short life.
Whole slabs of skyline removed
without apology or consent.
Measures of my memory
stolen with startling precision.
My past confined to a bygone time
before I was through living it.

The buildings I was schooled in
reduced to rubble and replaced
By nice-price architecture
Or high rise weeds.

I sat and stared at the footprint
one night years ago with Daryl.
We were in our cups.

I remember struggling
to remember.