The City Poem by Mitzie Holstein

A monster
Awake
Sleepy
Sleeping
Until it opens
Its jaws
Slurps you in
And swallows
You up

The city
A place where families thrive
As they strive
To stay alive

A strange place
An oasis
Yet a desert
A lonely place
With people
Desperate

Children are caught up in the web
Falling under its spell
They hit the streets
Sometimes returning
As dust

Lying there in a box
Lost
Hopeless
Conquered
By this beast
As sly as a fox

The city
We are hypnotized
By a monster
A monstrous monstrosity
A conniving beast

Feeding on humans
Feasting on our fears
Bellowing over our insolence
Spitting us out
Spewing its guts

And we return
Never the same
Again