urban Archives - Teja on the Horizon

What do you think happenswhen you take a lion away from his savannahOr the tiger takenfrom her forest haunts -do you suppose They go mad?The skyscrapers of the city loom all aroundme, and all of us - surrounded, caged,our ancient landscapes nowhere to be found.Do you think we should not beclimbing the walls?I don’t think. I, too,have shambled along the megapolis corridorsJust the same as you.They begin to lookthe same beneath the yokeof urban smogLeft | right | up | downthe sewered streets more of the same,Just another path across the bog.Light is always shiningAll aroundA wonderful artifice! Untrainingthe eye from its natural sun.Before long they tell you there’s no such thingAs Up,and there never has been.Stop trying to climb away,be cool and say,there is no Sky to cleanse your eye.Take your tranquilisers with your own hands, and dancetricks through the night and day.Yet in the last edge of sanity the human mindstill peers down the corridorsand wonders, surely there is an end?Before releasing its final byssal threadDiscovering too late that Up existsfor it can fall Down, into Abyss.

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