city of
rats,
scurrying
through the excess of the wasteful.
people
clutching their past,
embracing
their future,
grasping
a new life.
Let
freedom ring!
~ K. Blackburn
the soft,
sweeping sound of silence
soothed
her hurt heart.
hearing
happiness,
she
sorted through her sorrow.
plop. falling though the water.
plink. hitting the bottom.
kerplunk. another thrown in.
more
change grants wishes.
more
change eases her being.
~ K. Blackburn