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City Lights Shining

From my window 
I see lights 
in small apartments 
How are the inhabitants lives going,
I wonder 
Perhaps they have found love 
Here in the metoroplis 
Urban dwellers
need love to survive
In the asphalt jungle 
Hundreds, thousands of lights shine
in the metropolitan darkness
Lives are being lived 
by my fellow citizens
on this third planet from the sun
Personally, I hope all 
goes well for my fellow urbanites 
Live rumbles on beneath and above the 
sidewalks of Gotham - the home of a million stories

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Lindsay Laurie

Date: 8/30/2019 8:52:00 PM

Hello Michael … a picture of the concrete jungle way of life - well done - Lindsay

Matthew Anish
Date: 8/31/2019 12:08:00 PM

Thanks for your kind words. The name is Matthew - not Michael, however. Peace & Love Matthew Anish

Heidi Sands

Date: 8/29/2019 3:32:00 PM

Well done. You brought me to the city and I am not there often :)

Panagiota Romios

Date: 8/28/2019 1:12:00 PM

Mathhew, you remind me of my days in San Francisco in the seventies. It was a sane and safe city back then. And I also womdered in those apartment windows about the inhabitants. The last thing I ever thought about it was it being a jungle. Chicagio,yes!SF was more like magical gems. Panagiota

Matthew Anish
Date: 8/29/2019 5:45:00 PM

I went to San Francisco many years ago and thought it was beautiful. How safe I don't know. Glad you liked my poem! Peace & Love Matthew Anish