City

Denounced in the sunlight the collective glass glitter cold unrepentant only the homeless meander divest only gutter and litter offer solace on the graffiti spent a park bench there is no other place to rest Between tiles and floors and abandoned doors implacable confrontation with welcome arms only the comfort of training shoes only a collective impersonal ignores the stench of traffic fumes and still the children breath it in Amidst the festoon in colour glorious of plenty begs the transient hand of a last short lived a little compassion pleaded on the pavement hunger scratched at piteous attempt and belittled beneath the scorn hidden behind a sunglass reflection Interminable parties illusion of community compressed and stacked in repetition every fashionable uniform of diversity marches the streets pacing homogeneous stare blank a multitude of nothing else to think about Edifice scraped and scratched through soul no more purpose other than the skin deep surrogate submission of life the paltry excuse of cement around its entrapment weaves the delusions of social conformities