by Nick Gisburne
Go deeper. Pass and penetrate the clouds
Astonished by the brilliance below
A city, where incalculable crowds
Are swarming in the sunlight’s gleam and glow
Go deeper, where the multitudes are real
Relentless, interacting human lives
The smoke, the sounds, colliding stone and steel
A crazy maze of dusty, concrete hives
Go deeper, to the suffocating streets
Where all the pain and pleasure you can find
Destroys the city’s broken heart, which beats
Beneath the defects nobody designed
Go deeper, through the city, through the skin
To know it, you must find what walks within
