This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Andrew Nelson On Date: 2001-03-16 16:07:30 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The City that Never Sleeps

Smog Stinks! Excuse me, I beg to differ. If it does then why, do millions live in New York City? Is black smog pretty? No, but, Battery Park is. You can see Liberty standing as if she's the one making the light glint  on the water, dancing like  fairies flitting around  Peter Pan's head. I know about the water, but, when you look at a diamond, do you think of the mine? A magical place that never sleeps. Where you can fly like a bird, standing on the World Trade Center, the wind blowing in your face, you can see the human animals below, scurrying about on their daily routines. Fly down there to join them, pay your quarter, ride the ferry, see Liberty still standing  light in her hand, calling the huddled masses to Freedom. The sun goes down, the city is still lit by millions of lights twinkling like stars. Stop a moment, can you feel it? The heartbeat, as if instead of  millions of separate lives she is one living, breathing, Entity. People moving like blood  through her veins. The bees on Wall Street buzzing about the hive with a two word vocabulary, BUY, SELL, then they look across to Brooklyn and see a sign reminding them to "Read God's Word The Bible Daily". Dream of peace, or see a play, or just watch the ball drop. Get to know her before you judge, maybe smog does stink, but, I know why people live there.

Copyright © March 2001 Mark Andrew Nelson


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