Up Here..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

up here
reality is
changed.

there are
more that
are offered
to savor
with the heart
and soul

up here
you see above
those walls.


i see grass
with white seats
a woman sipping
her morning tea.

a man reading
his cellphone
a boy swimming
in the pool.


years ago
below this place
we had only
seen the walls
and the
roar of the
graffiti is
what we have
always heard.

we smelled
something fishy
then
from all over
the place.