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Mynydd Du

Mynydd Du

 

muddy tears from the past

sliding down the cheeks

of those who remember them

 

the thunder obliterated a generation

that would benefit from the industry

of their fathers

 

who prayed it all would last

while bosses planned

to take away their livelihood and history

 

they piled the slurry

into an unreliable black mountain

towering over ever...

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