A was a wall

A was a wall

Dividing East

From West

They tore me down

Used my bones

To build a patio

For a temple the

Modernists buried

Beneath an office block

In Shoreditch

Once I bore witness

To gladiatorial combat

An amphitheatre

In Colchester

A car park

Beneath tarmac

A burial site fit for a King

In Leicester

I was a statue hauled down

In Iraq

Pulled through the streets

In Bucharest

Adulterated in Moscow

In Bristol it seems

To resonate louder

Than it should

Along with slavers

And insurrectionist

War mongers

Are the lost Pharaohs

The pillaged tombs

Of the privileged

Rewrite my history

As if it had never happened

Before

When everyday

With the benefit

Of hindsight

A different version

Is given credence

Britain was an Imperial power

Now it is a colonial rapist

Where does the truth lie

Somewhere left

Of centre

Does it really matter

When the only true facts

Are the ones

We believe in

And they may be the

Ones that academic

Revisionists

With kind hearts

And an aversion to coronets

Now say

Might be wrong

Move right along

There is nothing to see here

Mind the gap

Keep clear of the doors

Like the weather

The times are always changing.