"What's that half wheel?"
My daughter asked
"I see them everywhere"
How could she not
know what it is
or the reason they are there?
"What they were for",
I said to her
"When made into a wheel;
Was to wind the miners
down to work
Did they not tell you in school?"
If they just teach
of kings and queens;
of wars and ancient times
What will we know
of pits and coal;
Of working in the mines?
It's up to us
who lived the days
where memories are so clear
To keep alive the history;
don't let it disappear
The half-wheel's there
to remind us all
of the people of our town
They became our heritage
and we must not let them down.
(c) Tim Fellows 2017
