In The Valley
In the valley where I walk
Dead rabbit in a trap
Paint vapour on the wind
River bed dry and cracked
In the valley where I walk
A disused hen house
Fruit boxes for a bed
A red rug for a head
In the valley where I walk
A farmer bolts a door
Geese gather round his feet
Distant cars crawl in the heat
In the valley
In the valley where I walk
In the valley where I walk
Two white horses
Barbed wire nettle beds
Disused pit gear tumbled sheds
In the valley where I walk
A burnt out car in a bluebell patch
Broken bottles, cans and drums
In the litter, tits and bums
In the valley where I walk
On an old car window
A Smurf sticker faded brown
The car sits low on tyres let down
In the valley where I walk
Racist daubed graffiti bridge
Underneath the trickling foam
A jagged bumper rusted chrome
In the valley where I walk
A swimming pool, three Alsatians
Padlocked gates, two alarms
Four garages from a barn
In the valley where I walk
A doll lies on a lawn
Model trucks in a mound of sand
A child pretends to scar the land
In the valley where I walk
10,000 years of history
Where the brown trout leapt for fly and hook
Read about it in a book