People in this city come and go
Buildings walk away
Carried to the landfills
A neighbour reclaims sod
Placing old boards and bricks together
Births makeshift living space
Before any earthquake strikes
Taxes take, authorities take
What greater change can-
any disaster make?
Personal disasters can so totally devastate us as to lead to severe depression. Or so much growth can result that will indeed move mountains. I really love this poem, my friend!
With every disaster like a hurricane or an earthquake, there will be untold destruction and people who have lost their houses can now afford only makeshift houses and that too in landfills! Usually its effect will be felt more in urban areas where there is a floating population! However survival becomes an ordeal with every disaster! You have conveyed so much!
Thank you so much, Valsa. The disasters, as you say, can be great or small. Sometimes the ones with the most devastating impact are extremely personal.
'People in this city come and go Buildings walk away Carried to the landfills' this is brilliant, the entire poem is brilliant, especially taxes and authorities out taking earthquakes, puts government and civil authority damage disasters into perspective
Thank you so much, Terry. Government action (or inaction) can indeed accomplish what natural disasters do.
Hustle and bustle! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Buildings walk away Carried to the landfills- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - that is so visual- - so heartbreaking in its own way because buildings are inhabited with memories- -yet we go on, building more, building better, building higher and the landfills continue growing higher as well. fascinating write.
Thank you so much, Susan. And those landfills- -they seem to grow faster than the buildings.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Perhaps a disaster is exactly what is needed to begin anew, taking away from all old structures, paid out by insurance companies leaving the individual to a brand new start. All taxes paid up, move forward into a new light. Your poem presents a lot of food for thought...Fantastic...10