The Heart of a City

Woman’s heel beating on the sidewalks, you hear life rushing.

You hear it but you can’t see it.

Where is the heart of the city, where could it be?

All you see is bright lights, teasing hair, glowing eyes and shallow tears.

Lost in the crowded streets, you call out to the trees.

Down there, chuckles and words bounce off their body, ripple down the road, and straight into the sea.

Gone is the mind, gone is the spirit.

The smoke of their dreams brings you back to reality.

Welcome to the island of utopia, welcome to the city.

You thought you loved, you thought you believed

But define the heart that stands for every feeling.

Behind every motion, behind what you call meaning;

Sunk in the sea of action, emptiness is spreading.  

How will we walk, how can we talk?

How can we disrupt, the calm that is raging?

Watch us, and you’ll learn how we move.

Listen and you’ll know what we chose.

Our heels are beating, our hearts are breathing.

It is in this city, that we will live to be.

To be and to laugh, to hope and to watch

To become who’ve you become,

But to never let it be,

The last word of destiny.