my fragile city

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This poems comes with one of my paintings that has the same name.

my fragile city

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o such a city
fragile like gelignite
the sun doesn't set right
     it hides
hoping to survive the night

frightened in it's sorrows
held hostage by it's morrows
that predicts it's fall

have you walked these paper bridges
built by straw men 
or smelled the hope ditched in ditches
with the stab of a pen

glass houses shall shatter
it's flowers have scattered 
for fear of bullets and thrown stones 

mummified in red tape
the only visible escape
is when it buries it's bones 

have you walked these paper bridges
built by straw men
or smelled the hope ditched in ditches
with the stab of a pen



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mdpoetgirl commented on my fragile city

04-12-2022

This is a very well-written piece. Really makes me think of the inner cities where, though "fragile" places to live, produce some of the strongest and most courageous people.

GhostDaSpook commented on my fragile city

10-24-2021

Would have made great song lyrics,I mostly write to lyrics or beats.

Crush

10/25/2021

Cool, because this is a song as well.

Crush commented on my fragile city

10-23-2021

This poem comes with one of my paintings of the same title.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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