Under The Tarp

They build up your walls
Brick by brick
Under tarp that you passed by the street and you never noticed
Till it was towering above you
You never still noticed
We don’t see how easily cities grow and change
We think we are the same
The flood comes
Making you take in the suffering in one breath, one view of the skyline, one bird
Two eyes
And we see for once the walls your trauma built for you
The walls our collective grief unacknowledged built for us
But we know for once
That anger can destroy our walls
The delicate flowers will over years take over and crumble them all
We see the suffering city and witness its beauty for once.