To the City

Nestled in your bustling hive
Life remembers it’s alive
To love your wrestling, striving,
Jostling, thriving surge:

Urgent, various, keenly gregarious
Enthusing evergreen
Refusing no addition
To a bright confusing scene:

Life upon grid upon light upon
A tight mass of glass and orchestration,
A web of engineered distraction
And incessant interaction.

Compelled compelling insatiable child
Styled on some future moment.
A culture racing to an endless start;
A heart in an open cage.

Sumangali Morhall
January 2005