San Francisco
(2020-2022)
you were my home when the world got mad.
you were strange and wild. your tall trees and empty streets were an eerie reminder that this world is a strange place.
still the blue, high sky kept the promises of hope.
so much dirt was poured on your streets and soul.
dark abysses were opening its mouth on many of your corners deep in the night.
the day would welcome its citizens with messages of control and emptiness.
you suffered hardly and great.
your beauty was almost gone.
you stood naked among the unseen world of high judges that wrote in the book of living only the names of a few of your people.
the gray heron hidden in your biggest park was crying over humanity that lost its way.
my only hope is that salty water of your wise sea will wash away all of your pain, one day.