This place,
Changed so much
In the last year.
The mind wanders,
Blocking out the noise,
Remembering a time,
When this place
Overflowed with life.
Flowers, animals, trees
All living in peace.
A place to relax
A place to escape
The stress of
Life, love, loss
Somewhere to go
Where dreams ruled
Imagination thrived.
Honking cars,
Shouting people,
Crying children
Jolt the mind back
Serving as a reminder of reality
Reality, where dreams
are shot down, laughed at, forgotten daily.
Reality, where people are judged
On appearance, ideas, differences
Reality, where drugs, alcohol and abuse are common
Reality, where paper thin is ****
Reality,  where money and status
Are more important that the starving men
And women on the streets.
Reality, where all this and more
Are accepted as daily life.
I think I could do without
The reminders of reality, don't you?