cityscape dreams

CITYSCAPE DREAMS

Lies and traffic noises hang in the mottled air
over the green
        and
where sun has been
unheard echoes of other lovers
we can walk untouched by everything that's not ourselves

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Over the wall and away
join hands through the slice of sky that's between us

paper landscape

wishes - secret between us.

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They wandered hand in hand
Through dusty sunladen streets
 Until they came to the square
  Loud with light and the bustle of the day

A floor of marble
A pool of gold that had washed
 A million million feet

In the centre a fountain bursting into the blue of a sky
    full of screaming birds,
And round the fountain's edge, words in a language too old to read

And as they gazed
An old man who sat, spoke and said as they listened in their love:
 "Touch my drops to your lady's cheek
  and kiss them away,
  and they will be the only tears
  that you will see there this day".