Left on deposit within these walls
Youth...womanhood...motherhood...
Hopes...dreams...dignity...
In exchange...helpless humiliation
And a void that could never be filled.
No interest shown on this account...
Only blind indifference to it’s cost.
Laundering done here ...souls not money.
January...deposit account opened for two
Closed as one...minus 50% heart
50% left on deposit...withdrawn by direct debit...
Birthdays...Mother’s Day...Christmas Days.
That “May Bush fling” cancelled her young life
No way she could ever have been his wife.
Cast a cold eye on this .....Place
See not just its bank facade...
Before the metamorphosis...
Stood Fortress Walls...behind where...
So many Young Lives froze!!!!
(Written on seeing the new Anglo Irish Bank, College Road, Galway
once The Magdalen Laundry dedicated to all who “entered” there
and were never the same again and those they had to leave behind!!)