poem

Hello Chicago

There in that city
Standing tall
Rounding corners on our way
To everywhere we had never
Known before we failed
To extinguish all that
Fire beneath our skin.

There it began and
Never ended
Not even after all the cities
On the tour of years and tears
Our resurrected recollections
Buried, live forever
Aglow, without regard for
The future, the wind, or wonder
Always the other in our skin.

Hello Chicago