Elmet & Agbrig hill fort long barrow
Huddersfield.
I view with consternation
the want to place a cafe
on and around a Neolithic burial site
away
from sacredness and true respect
the inconsiderate would
spoil outstanding beauty
just because they could
its vulgarity beyond belief
its disrespect as well
intolerable behaviour
why doesn’t someone tell
these clearly ignorant traders
it feels like a nasty spell
insensitive and tactless
uncultured and unrefined
a pimple on a pretty face
that plans like this are signed
The hideousness
how ill – proporioned one might say
a callous disregard for life
there must never be a way
to cheapen and to commercialise
history for we
See its shameful and insidious
and injurious to see.
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.