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City Sestina

A map guide clarifying the wrong place

Stoic expressions with implied purpose are no help

Busy streets bustling about this foreign land of no lights

High buildings sporting officiality block my view

Of the mountains and rivers now paved over by ideals of the future

A showcase of grey streets, walls, and skies; I am left hopeless.

 

No color, no contrast, just black and white: the architects are hopeless

All the intricate designs and patterns are of a different time and place

I cannot be trapped in the colorless cinema of the town; I search for a vibrant future

Native minds drear into the day, knowing not that they desperately need help

The neon lights and rain shower rainbows are not an element of the city's depressed view

It's as if the colorblind man blackened the city and closed his curtains to the light

 

The planes cannot find where to land because someone put out the runway lights

Auras only shine in black and white, the long since hopeful are now helplessly hopeless

I exhale my dissapointment towards the uninspired dead end view

And mournful rainbows melt out of the sky, defeated. Why did I come here in the first place?

Perhaps I am the prophecy, the ****** the angelic omen sent by God to help

Or perhaps that is conceited; one person alone cannot brighten this future.

 

No amount of psychic ability or math calculations could have predicted this future

Somebody shot down the angels, choked out all the lights

Malicious villains took over as citizens realized superman wasn't coming to help

Thus the people watched as the color drained out and faded away, oh, they are hopeless

Cacophonous chaos throws broken hearts, leaving shards all over the place

A kaleidoscope zoom reflects nothing but melancholy expressions into my view.

 

When was the last time the sunshine peeked through the window's view?

Did the sun burn out from uncertain predictions of the future?

I try to envision when only the bleakness of TV sets in the city were out of place

Because psychedelic intricacies ruled, shinning proud neon lights

But then the clouds greyed the sky once the colorblind man began to feel hopeless

His dimension of colors disagreed with the perception of others, shying him from help

 

Nobody could answer his message in a bottle, his SOS, his plea for help

So day after day darker walls constructed over his already restricted view

At points in our lives our faith finds nothing to battle the hopeless

But news of the blind man seeing purple mountains ignites faith in the future

Of the man of no color who painted the city grey and drained the neon lights

Because his color is not non-existent, but waiting to be found in his own secret place

 

So perhaps we can help transform this dystopia into a brighter future

We cannot let be a view that we know has the capability to glitter in the light

We will smolder the pollution cloud of hopeless energy and enlighten this place.

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