This Poem was Submitted By: carole j mennie On Date: 2001-06-21 13:13:29 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Children's Eyes

Children's eyes are blind to garbage-strewn city streets. They seek new playgrounds amidst parked cars, find places where violets can poke purple heads through carpets of trash, and marvel that sunshine comes down through windows in the sky. Adult eyes look inward on wavy reflections of childhood rising up, hazy, from hollows in hot, summer asphalt. City streets rise and fall, seem to weave and wander, always halting at some impossible barrier. Heat plays terrible tricks. Ancient eyes stare outward from porches and stoops  on sultry summer evenings. Dark watchmen, stalled in time, seeing streets made of memories, painful, often bloody truths masked by dim city street lights, afraid to touch the edges of night. 

Copyright © June 2001 carole j mennie

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