Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Roam

Ancient Rome echoes across our land

Wherever you go, she is there before you

Stone brick walls split the land in two

Still standing proud

Soldier’s voices whisper in Latin tongue

Can still be heard

They are here to change our ways of old

Fill our minds with Gods they know

With ancient wode, we will send them back

This land is ours, each brook and track

We failed in flight to set their feet alight

They are here to stay a good long while

Some returned while others remain

They have had their day

Our ways have changed, we have learned a lot

Boudicca’s fight burned through the land

We must rebuild where Roman villas stand

Tourists come to walk alongside the wall

To the hear the echo of long lost calls

It was there I hear all roads lead back to Rome

Bridges built in span of time

I am grateful for the water that still flows

Along viaducts, roman baths, warm waters soothe

How did we cope before they came?

We are bound together by ancient time…