The Abandoned Town of The CrownMountain

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Finland

The abandoned place in Finland

The one

Everybody is talking about it

Everybody has been there

I wanted there too

I wanted to see The Place

I wanted to photograph it too

I wanted to bee one of them

One of the many others

I parked my bicycle by the gate

Which says 'no entry'

I follow a forest path to the greenness of the summer 

Here and there

I saw little fainting signs

Of long gone settlement

From the condition of the buildings

If you can still call them buildings

Maybe ruins would be more truthful

You can see the fact

That everybody knows this place

Everybody has been here

And everybody has left their mark here

I had read from the newspapers about the arsons of the area

But it didn't prepare me to the truth

Most of the place was just simply destroyed

Burned

Collapsed

Or otherwise vandalized

The place looked nothing like the pictures I had seen on the internet

There was nothing left

Where I had seen houses

No windows or walls

Were they supposed to be

In just three years

People had destroyed most of it

Permanently

Of course nature will take back it's own
On it's own natural way

But this was something else

I even understand people's need to mark their own hand

Their present

At the Stone Age it was drawings and hand marks at the rock walls

Now it's tags and spraying's on the building walls

Same same but different

How much is too much?

The City would like to smash these old buildings

In order to build something new

The citizens have put on many addresses
To save the buildings

They say

They are part of the history

That the place should let be

I kinda understood them

The pictures I saw told about beautiful old villas

But have this people been here sens then?

Have they seen the place?

Do they know

That the citizens have already destroyed the place

By themselves

That there is nothing more to save?

This was really interesting visit

But not in a way I was expecting

This abandoned ghost town

Was anything but abandoned

I saw a lot of people while I was there

Some of them picking berries

Some of them photographing like me

Some of them jogging

Maybe there could be something old saved

And something new build beside it

I experienced a peaceful and beautiful place

For outdoor activity's

Widely used by citizens

But the old ruins should be cleaned

Before they collapse

On someones child

I felt like a tourist

Everybody knew why I was there

Seeing a famous sights

From the 'must to do while you are here' list

Only thing missing

Was the tourist guide's voice in my headphones

Telling me about the history

In my memory

I was once again on that creepy Auschwitz tour

With forty other people

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