Living on the Coast of Space when all its glory ended

A new ghost town never to be mended

Lives in more pieces than when Challenger fell

Everything broken and gone to hell

Most packed up and went to greener pastures

But what of us at the bottom with no new masters?

A nurse and a steel worker looked down and said

“Now there’s no way for us to get ahead”

So down they flew to the bottle and pipe

Leaving their only daughter to the dark, empty night

She stumbled and fell, lost searching for light

But was finally given a hand and she held on tight

She pulled herself up and she looked to the West

And said “I’ll follow the sun at its behest”

Her mother fled North with a bottle in tow

Not even with time to let her daughter know

And in the remains where her broken house once stood

She turned her back and pulled up her hood

She learned so much and still she learns

Finding what she truly yearns

And though they’ll probably never find

Her teachers truly saved her mind