…it is my belief that this poem was buried deep in the subconscious for many years… it is the earliest piece of writing I can remember and the only one remaining from my childhood… it later morphed into what was to become BLACKOUT, The Dark Side of the Valleys… I wrote it to write the darkness out of me, an inheritance I never claimed but to which I was nevertheless, unwitting and innocent heiress… BLACKOUT was written for all the children who never asked to be born…
