Bricks and water
By YaseminB
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Bricks and water:
This town is built with
The ratio unknown
Mighty forests burnt
Ashen
Bricks and water
This town is built with
Bricks
on the backs of destitute peasants
Faces of soot, backs hunched,
Babes playing in murky water
Yonder:
Christ in his cradle
2000 years gone
Bricks and water
Have their cost
Says her lover
Time to leave
But this is my town of birth?
She says
But don't you want meadows unknown?
Her lover pleads
Meadows are not my thing
Her eyes moisten
I love the musty scent of my town's bricks
They part!
He to lush meadows and cow dung
She remains inhaling her
Town
Brokenhearted
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The grass is always greener.
The grass is always greener. It's a much-visited dilemma you describe, Yasemin. I enjoyed reading this very much.
Parson Thru
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