Robert M. Simmons  

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            The Abandoned Factory

An object once of universal pride

with architecture shaped in sturdy stone

and with the most advanced machines inside

producing goods an age would call its own,

in time it had become an empty form

devoid of all the life that moved within,

where unrestrained decay was now the norm

and silence had replaced the daily din.

Its wreckage cast a stunning silhouette

against the waning window of each day

as in the western sky the sun would set

with its always ineffable display—

a sample of the splendor often made

when epochs into darkness slowly fade.

    © 2008 by Robert M. Simmons

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The Abandoned Factory