Cement City

By JH_Foliage

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How to capture it all? I was no photographer My paint brushes, I have retired And words simply do not belong ... More

Proem
Tennis Court
Lake
8:15am
Chinatown
Styrofoam Aquarium
Hidden Hands
Duck, Duck, Goose
The People of In-Between
Bananas
In A Name
Street Smart
Is This Living the Dream?
A World Within
That Hospital
Sundial
Morning Run
Before the Daisies
2021
1:57 am
The Cherry On Top
Sunday Night
The Neighbour's Dog
Dinner Table
At One's Convienence
Playdium
The Kind Stranger
Inverted Stars
Winter Scars
Bloom in All Seasons
Sealed Love
A Bubble Bath
Eviction Notice
Mare
Vintage Prom
Elementary School
Blue Bars and Buildings
Little Bridges
Me As A Writer
Disorganized
Être Plus Âgée
Construction Fireflies
On The Edge
A Rule of Her Society
My Aunt Works Night Shifts
Artificial Twilight
360 Perspective
The Architect
Origins

The Old Buick

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By JH_Foliage

It never changes

Ages have passed, and that car

Still sits

Caked in so much dust

Even the owner forgot how to miss

The days of before, where money wasn't the driving force

Behind the wheel of life

And as luck stopped raining from the sky

It parched the mind, leaving it cold and dry like the underground parking lot

Where it died

Squished between the wall and a Lamborghini

And no one will ever know

How it lost it all

And perhaps it's better to forget than to remember

When down is the only way the road goes from here.


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