Compositions

As night falls, shadows climb into the light;

the midnight sun giving them a new life.

Pedestrians completely unaware

as the shadows stop and stare

before they inconspicuously disappear.

The air tastes the sweet and salty sounds

of conversations that fall to the ground;

in between the cracks and lines of asphalt,

trampled nightly by a rhythmic assault;

where they started ends up being worlds apart.

Urbanites can’t help be drawn to its sparkle;

wealthy to the destitute the city isn’t impartial.

Determined to reach out for what they’re after

whatever the color, to them it doesn’t matter;

it ends up being their mistress or their master.

A city never sleeps but does take a brief respite

as night dwellers disappear well before the sunlight;

in the depths of the concrete streets the city exhales,

the sound of heels from a different breed takes flight

encapsulating the many different faces of city life.

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