Imagine this land in 10 years
November 30, 2008 | Filed Under Poetry | Leave a Comment
There’d still be trees
And flowers
Birds and butterflies
And dragonflies
But more than ever
There’d be more of you and me
Locals, Koreans, Germans
Newborns, girls, boys
Students, septuagenarians
Some would have all the luxuries in life
Most would be beyond poor
I no longer see the spectacular crystal green-blue
Reflecting pool from across this city
A dark steel blue haze now hovers
The land that held my childhood
A haze that reflects the synthetic gaiety
Of the city’s nighttime
As if all the dazzling glitter could rinse out
The monstrosity that daytime’s sunlight magnifies
The moon rushes to replace the sun
If only to hasten the nightly laser-laden makeover
Of a city scorned
I imagine worse
And maybe even sooner, five years, seven years
But by then,
I’ll be living elsewhere, I imagine
|January 2003|