Lews Castle

Where the wealthy once played

in luscious ballrooms

dividing the interior

to shoot and fish

Where their chattels,

enumerated for poverty,

had less than nothing

to live on and pay with

Lowly walls sinking into the ground

only chimneys left standing

empty hearths cold

staring out over empty moorland

The mansion too was left

abandoned and crumbling

young ones were once taught

from where their elders were ruled

Where the wealthy once played

we now learn of their days

and those they subdued

from near and from far

Resplendent yet empty

the way it once was,

but no longer is,

Lews Castle