Abandonment of cultural heritage and education; for this?

The curtains are open

A velvet red with holes where the mice chewed through

A thick coat of dust blanketing the stage showing the years of abandonment

The paint peeling bowing from the walls like actors that once graced the stage

Props and costumes strewn about in a creepy display of times now gone

Empty seats harken to the audience of the past

Architectural elements that no longer survive

What a waste

For our cultural heritage to crumble and fall away

Beauty demolished by a wrecking ball to make way for another strip mall

A crisis of money well spent