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Farah Begum-Baig

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  Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site

No terracotta army here
Roman legionnaires long gone

Now explosions at Spadeadam
Those who kill by stealth and
leave the song of ewes

Laments for their lost lambs
Echoes within a baby Grand Canyon
Cascade down Butterburn’s waterfall

No pyramids, no Nile
Sphinx-like
The Wall stands and
Knows I am here.