Mystery and Melancholy of a street by Giorgio de Chirico
The trailers are all empty
The children are at play
Monstrosities and unspeakable voyeuristic veers
Churning stomach yet intoxicating are the views
Shaded passage
From east to west
Shadowed blankets
From southern alleys
To northern peak
Children play in the lighted spots
Emptiness
Calm
Prior to the first
Mirage
Pillars strengthening the town
Echoic symmetries
A Merger with the reality
Where teardrops, the taste of untested years
Drowning out the rhythmic patter
Of jubilant vaudevillian sound
Are the beasts unchained
Who've not been offered a choice
Fight for yourselves
Clashing steel caressing shield
The roaring travels it's way
From coliseum to covered street
Those without entry
Those who stand guard
Twitch as the sounds stand still
While the children are at play
knowing not the difference
between melancholy and joy
When new mysteries are but
A shrouded street away
Thanks to the D'verse crew for Open Link Night and for the art inspired prompts of Giorgio de Chirico, for without one or the other, this piece would not be here either.
