Silkstone Monument

The pain the bitterness and tears will still not go away

and I stand, for I cannot kneel to pray.

Slow I walk by I dare not stop for I stand and cry it's bitterness, that makes me weep

when I see these children lying here in death's deep sleep.

The story they cannot tell for them life, on earth was a total hell.

They were not old enough to have developed souls,

taken from their mother’s womb to work in the pits to draw the coals

and now it is to late for God the Church, Mankind to wipe the slate

Leslie Brown