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Tortured MAG
February 24, 2016
Cement punches your soily skin
Like the ocean against sea shore
Bleeding into dark dirty roots
It’s halting your growth.
The red and yellow signs
They penetrate your pores
Stabbing so deep,
How can you stand to breathe?
And then there are the lights
That blind the birds that fly.
They tell us to stop and go
But you run on your own time.
The pollution that swells your lungs
And the trash that clogs the way,
Your heart can barely beat
I beg “please hold on.”
© Lauren O., Weymouth, MA
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