Restoration

Black crust and lime
Haunting the upper side
Ancient building listing in more
Ways than one, weather warning,
Heritage on the slide
Stairs derelict, worn down,
There must come a reckoning,
A healing time for stone and soul,
Rise proudly again from decay,
Fresh and white and joyous
As the day it was made,
Inspiring hope, aspiring, firing
On all cylinders, one cylinder,
One white rose of triumph, in bloom.