A Visit Back Home

poem by: Dan Miltz
Written on Apr 28, 2018

Long prior - I took to the wheel 
On a day, fairly, surreal
Amid one of my visits back home
I went to see, tailgating, all alone
My boyhood city. A city on its knees  
I began patrolling, unemotionally
Among, the hollowed, disintegrated, arteries

I've gone into a run-down, stepping ground
Of relinquished houses, torched down 
Cess-pool of spoiled industries, shook
Dismal, diminishing, to tears look
A catastrophe of block, smoke, and gook 
Miles and miles of wrongdoing, invaded places
The most exceedingly awful, that humankind embraces

Free, with the blazing fury
Of youthful, spontaneity
I started to take pictures, ardently
Of drifters, hobos, winos, and the beggarly
Wearing, worn out, robe of strands
And vagrants with solidified hands
Crouched around, enormous, hot drum cans 

Without modesty, I eagle-eyed 
The crestfallen, with nowhere to hide 
That permeates, everywhere, I spied
Offering itself for examination 
A photo of urban immolation 
I was alone in a no man's homey 
And in a no man's city

© daniel miltz
 

 

Tags: Dark, Deep, Hope, Scary, Depressing,

 

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