RedRavenPoems

Through the windows all that can be seen

Is gray concrete and silver steel.

Plastic in a rainbow of colors, stretching from here to there.

It’s enough to drive one to despair.

My heart sinks at the sight. And I remember child hood delights.

I let the memories carry me away, as in my mind I dance and play.

Through fields topped with gold, ready for the harvest now.

Fenced in with trees, the forests edge, a wave of green that to the distance stretched.

The rolling hills all just like waves, the cerulean sky with firey sun that dazed.

All of these I long for again.

With a fevered wish carried deep within.

As a youth I may have played, but I’ve grown and bills have to be paid.

Still I look at the concrete maze, and wish to be so far away.

What happened to the lovely world I knew then. Full of life and fairy glamor.

It’s transformed with a metallic clamor.

And with it took a piece of my soul

Someday I’ll reclaim it, that is my goal.