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Escape - A Transcendentalist Poem
When I walk
(descending through the pendulum of the city)
… I yearn for an open space.
My throat thickens in the congested
alleyways
because as we see ourselves,
through nature and
God,
the Sky sees us --
under an open veil of velvet sky.
Here I am at mercy to truth.
But from my perch
in the city,
the Sky above me is
incapable of
seeing anyone but
rather it
hides -- under the smog
and the
dulled lights that stain
the horizons.
If only I could find an open space,
for as we see God, as
we see nature,
as we see ourselves,
the Sky would see no different. ~
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