Cities

Title: Cities Author: John King Ayanfe © There is a city; city christened 'Earth' There is a city beneath the earth There is a city in the waters of earth There is a city in the air of the earth Cities within the walls of a city Forces, elements and doings beget their kinds Mysterious in their stance; prolific discharges Oh, the physical is merely bare before spirituality Every city suffers chaos, pains and inflation Earth is calm yet rages with countless troubles Man is the creator of his own storms The cities have been portrayed with perpetual worries Man is borne of flesh and blood To flesh and blood he lives and dies Man spends his ephemeral life dining with iniquities Alas, the body sow for the soul to reap There are yet cities after 'souls' reaper' comes One laid with comfort - 'nother carved of furnance Our cities on earth shall prepare man for either Thus, the benefits of mortal cities elevates either