By Marguerite Le Roux on Friday, 06 April 2012
Category: Marguerite le Roux

Dear Santiago...

This is a poem that was pressed on my heart for this amazingly coulorful, vibrant city while we were there...

Your veins are crawling with creatures that eat

that lay you bare in your joys and sorrows

 your dry throught shouts for better tomorrows

as your heart is cast out to the city street

Out of this dry dust and desolation

in the strong beats of the synchopation

streetlamps stand that lift to the sky

doorways to truth and awnsers to why

You clothe yourself  in cheap garments

and sit like young birds in greener felds

your featherless bodies cry out for parchment

and small boken bones cry out for a shield

But still babies laugh, grass grows on old roofs,

earth yearns beneath feet and holds breath as it moves

for though you don't see it and it's plainness is might stun

you lay nestled in the pivotpoint of the rising and setting Sun.

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