Pry the door open

Kaisir Hsu

For a while I walked.

Listening to the honking horns

Of the city streets

The smell of Boardwalk Fries

From a distance confused itself

With the sewers’ stench

The city wasn’t the same anymore

I walked and for hours didn’t find

A place to lie comfortably

But the pigeons made me company

Flying and dodging the sky-high wires

That the city planted instead of trees

I walked into eternity….

For me and for the others I’m sure,

The shut door to their thoughts

are punctured in the blinking of their eyes.

Wake up and smell the breeze!!!

Your city lay in ruins!!!