Indigenous citizen
struggling to stay civilized
amidst
monolithic visages,
stone-faced and stoic witnesses;
overhead,
gargoyles grin—
hideous grimaces
guarding ever vigilant.

Inhospitable city grid
dimly lit,
rain's residual liquid
slicks
gritty asphalt
pavement glistens,
blacktop igneous,
glittering obsidian.

Hidden within this vision
visits solitude, unsolicited-
loneliness exhibited
never fitting in,
island imprisonment
as bridges begin
quivering
above stygian rivers grim;
abysmal reflections glint,
swimming in viridian.

Water's
brim risen
to vertiginous limits
I see
flitting images of
cataclysmic collision with
water's frigidness
obliterating to oblivion.

A dismal wish
reminded by a
grisly glimpse of
figments vivid...