Shiny Metal bolts
and long, looming beams
Fabricated in blind ambition
Abandoned in disarray
A confident man’s dreams of latitude
Sealed in cement, lost in aggregates
Unwanted,
unloved
A mother’s embrace
Seeping through the cracks
Sanctifying every filament
Smoothing every jagged edge
No matter how far you’ve strayed, you long with
every fiber of your being to
Come home,
Come home
You make your return,
Full of gaping wounds,
Injustices, and bloodied slashes
An outgrowth, splintered and scrapped
But you’ll come back stronger, and you’ll resist
Man’s banal delusions of grandeur
Unwanted,
unwelcome
We are not hopeless,
And we are not the
Decrepit remains they made of us,
But an unstoppable force.
We defiantly wait ‘til our day comes,
When all of the brownstones will turn green
Come home,
Come home
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