Slate Miners of Blaenau Ffestiniog

A tribute

Amgueddfa Cymru: Public Domain

The power of sinew, muscle and bone,
chipping at the flakes of the devil slate,
till the killer dust snuffed out your life.
The quota of your years; two score and seven.
Lives doused as the wax candle at the end of your shift,
extinguished by the darkness and the dust of your lungs.