Proem

How to capture it all?

I was no photographer
My paint brushes, I have retired
And words simply do not belong
On a cover
The same way they fit
In my mouth, or march along the surface
Of these pages.

How to capture it all?

The sounds, the smells, the blurring lights as life rushes past me.

The things I feel but have not found reflected around me.

The images that
Undoubtedly
Would stop the carbon copy of myself
And urge, "Read me."

How to capture it all?

But some questions and answers
Like some estranged partners
Walk on opposite sides of the road.

So I draw one line to the next
Connecting the right
And what's left of the unknown
Into the semblance of a city.

I scrawl above,
Cement City.

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Sticker made by @Pipwusa.

🥇 First Place in Poetry - Sunflower Awards 3.0
🥉 Third Place in Poetry - Borderverse Awards Season 2