A city, so sweetly seated sweeps the eye, sugars the heart.
Steeped in sights and smells, bellyful of moody tumult,
Too much at times, a time to cry loe! Tis mine! When the time is right.
To fight for bright lights and nights where you feel right.
The sweet part of the city, the ones with the bars and restaurants.
Go to her and sleep kindly in her bosom, for you’ve chosen to go when,
Times are bad, you are sad, can’t help your silly fads of glad and mad.
Go when hearts happy, humming along under honey sun.
Go when it rains, and the pains of saints remind you of paints and tanks.
Go when it pours, walk by doors with scores of men sinking into the floor.
Or flows of people bustling to and froe with frocks and coats, their boots like boats.
Remind yourself this is home, that the love of one is all-inclusive,
A reciprocal of anything but a typical city-skyline at times elusive.
But always there, under skin, crawling and bubbling bubbling before a sea,
Of white-hot light at night, shooting stars are cars keeping pace with mars.
Cosmos of identity, culture, fast lanes and 2nd avenue donut chains.
Bicycles pass by like cycles turning turning turning ever serving the burning,
In the thighs of her inhabitants, simply a habit they chase one another like rabbits.
Easily lost in four quadrants, the whispers of a past haunt us,
We say farewell to someone who loved and taught us not to get caught up,
In the lies of conjured ruckus of a broken promise others flaunt us.
It’s not easy to say farewell to a city, one so lively and free with the spree of glee,
It’s harder still to grow so close and know it’s time to go for a week or more,
Elsewhere, wherever the wind blows to other cities whole and full of people,
Places and things, turns the brain and makes one dizzy,
Fall into a tizzy and break a wine glass, a task not easily masked.
Blame it on the cat, but others see it’s an act, sit defeated, hardly intact,
Remember in not too long you will be back at same old stunts,
In the city as sweet and somber as the memory of a sunlit summer soiree.