A Break in the Wall

A busker plays piano accordion at the cross

Incongruous or perhaps that’s me?

Here to retrace the steps

Of my ancestors?

Well…no not really

Unless they were Roman?

 

Where was I?

Retracing steps…yes

I have been here before

Oh years before

Resided a stones throw away

Walking the wall

 

There are ghosts along this wall

Of my own making

Memories

Conversations

“Memories are made of this”

Dean Martin once sang

 

Italian interlude again

Needing to exorcise the ghosts

Book shop still there

Nothing for me

Nothing

Moving on

 

Sentry tower stands

Former look-out post

I hear voices

Whispered

Remembered

Give me silence

 

Horribly modern interlude

Steel bridge

Straddling dual carriageway

Wall demolished

Making way for cars

Progress apparently

 

Chester Race Course

No horses today

The Dee passes by

Traffic intrudes

Again

Leave me alone

 

Back on the wall

Cathedral in site

More ghosts

Straying inside

Voices again

Back to the wall

 

How many times?

Circuits around Chester

Remembering

Looking forward

At the past

It’s alive here

 

All too alive

Ghosts of Deva on a wall

Gold once found here

Or love?

What goes around

Comes around

 

Dedicated to all the women I have suggested going for a walk around Chester walls with…at last I poetically salute you! Taken from book THE CHESHIRE POEMS www.deanfrasercentral.com