POETRY

Vertical Challenge

Silent Sentinels
Monolithic Mutes
Monumental Monuments
Counterfeit Buttes
Representing Years of Toil
Real Estate Killings,
Plundered Oil
Honeycombed with Life
We Seem
More a Nightmare
Than a Dream
Shoulder to Shoulder
We stand and Wait
For Future Generations
To Decide our Fate
Falling Down or
Standing Tall
Preservation Status or
The Wrecking Ball
Boasting to the Heavens
We Boldly Say:
“Look what Man did, Yesterday!”

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