City of Lights

I was someone

Before I got lost in the mist

Of dust, rubble and destruction

I was someone

Someone

To be read

To be heard

To be seen

But not this one

The one you see today

I was someone else

There to be felt

To be embraced

To be loved

I use to

Struck a pose

Smelled like a rose

Stood in the sun

Glowed in the moonlight

But now, something isn't quite right

I feel disfigured

Displaced

Disgraced

Yet on display

Like a dead body in a crowded place

Like a poem on a paper used as a plate

I feel them mocking me

My beauty or what it used to be

‘Oh and how I used to be’

Magnificent

Desired

Owned

Not left on my own

Sense of home

Signs of hope

All washed away

Into the other side of the edge

Where I used to stand in pride

And it came to kiss my feet

Those memories are fleeing

Floating away, on the shores

I saw them for a fleeting moment

Then, sun went down in hiding

Only thunder, no lightning

And all went dark

In the city of lights