Armco/Ak Steel Poem by Randy McClave

The water towers now lay on the ground
No longer can their foundations be remembered or found,
Once they were standing so majestically tall for all to see
They once stood for a great steel making company.

As I looked again I sadly accept that all is now gone
Even the mighty Blast Furnaces which use to blow on,
No longer can you hear their mighty sound
Because, they too have also fallen to the ground.

I say goodbye to you an old and majestic friend
Because of you to college my children I did send,
And because of you I bought a house and a car and whatever I did need
Clothes for my family and myself and food to feed.

I look back at all the great memories that you helped create
Before and after I entered through your main gate,
The friends and the stories the sadness and the joys and cheer
They too, have been laid to rest here.

No longer or anymore do they make iron or steel
No longer is it called or seen as a mighty world class mill,
And no more slabs or sheets or ingots will it ever yield
Now, it has become a graveyard in a large empty field.

Randy L. McClave