Wednesday, 18 September 2013

London: Part Three


London is my one true love
A playground for my insomnia
Her streets chaotic and messy
But her appearance prim and proper

She is unapologetic
With the longest past of anyone I know
Once queen of half the world
She shares with me how she’s grown

She pulls me to her heart
We see museums, paintings and sculptures
She knows so many faces
An array of class and cultures

She takes me out after the sun goes down
But it does not feel like darkness here
With artificial lights always on
There are no external monsters to fear

She has expensive taste
And robs me of my pounds and sense
As her drunken lips are loose
Her posture no longer tense

Her public façade crumbles
And reveals her private self
Torn between duty and liberty
Her eyes plead a cry for help

A shadow of her former self
She cries, and simply doesn’t see
The past is not what defines you
But helps shape you to be

The city of worlds and memories


LB



N.B. This work was submitted for my end of year assessment and as such I was not allowed to publish until after my course had finished. Any plagiarism of this or parts of this will be picked up on through anti-plagiarism software.

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