As I thought my way through the growing darkness overcame me. The wind and mist blocked everything out. I couldn’t believe that this was the place I once used to visit that was so full of life. Bright illuminous lights used to welcome you in and now all that welcomed you was a sign half fallen off, paint chipped and over grown weeds. The funfair sign was demolished. I pushed open the rusty old gate it clanked as though it was about to fall off its hinges. I smelt my hands. They smelt foul. It was a rotten rusty smell. I wiped them on my jeans and looked into the darkness. I saw litter everywhere. I sighed and looked down at my feet. There was an abandoned teddy bear laying there. It was colourless, lifeless. It once was pink but now a faded yellowy brown colour. It was dirty. As I looked beyond the fog, I felt so lonely. This places once full of joy, lights, laughter now so abandoned.

As I walked up to the burger stand I touched the counter. It was dusty and mouldy. I could smell a faint smell of onions. I looked over the counter and there was a box full of unused rotting onions, which had just been left there. Some other kids must have been here before because the whole place was cover in graffiti.

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I walked down a familiar path remembering all of the beautiful flowers which used to be here. They were now dead, all bent and flat. I looked up. There it was my favourite ride ‘The Rollercoaster’. I walked though the area where you used to queue. All of the fences which separated it had toppled over. A gust of wind rushed past me nearly losing my balance. Then it went back to silence and rustling or the leaves. I walked on to the ride having to clamber over the electrical sign of ‘the rollercoaster’ which now had no power flowing ...

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