KW
HELPING SAVE SCAVENGERS AND SALVAGERS
SITUATED AT THE SOUTHEASTERN TIP.
FISHERMAN, PIRATES AND SALTY WRECKERS
FROM NATURE’S FURY AS THE WINDS WOULD WHIP.
MEADE’S MONUMENT WAS LEVELED BY HURR'CANE
SOON WAS REBUILT TO EIGHTY-SIX FEET.
SURVIVED ONLY BY THE TENDER FROM BANE
THIS BEACON SAVES OTHERS FROM STORMS THEY MEET.
NOW IT RESTS GIVEN WAY TO THE REEF LIGHTS
SERVED PROUDLY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE YEARS.
BUT STILL IT PROVIDED FOR NATURE’S FIGHTS
FOR THE NUMEROUS TIMES WHEN THERE WERE FEARS.
STANDING TALL AND REACHING TOWARDS THE HEAVENS
KEY WEST’S BLACK AND WHITE TOPPED TOWER BECKONS.