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are we MAG
November 6, 2014
a generation
who wish they were born under
a different sky,
a different life
name
face
how and where,
the glass and the shard
the song and the piece
the steel and the sky
the light and the sand
no matter –
the buildings and the people
demand love
hope
purpose
an old cd player spinning
in a musty wired alleyway
playing a faint aria for no one,
no,
not even us.
© Sarah C., Great Falls, VA
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This article has 7 comments.
theSunfloweredCrow PLATINUM said...
on Mar. 8 2015 at 10:37 pm
This is great.
Andrew Chen BRONZE said...
on Nov. 16 2014 at 10:11 pm
Thanks for the comment! That's a great interpretation, thanks for sharing.
Andrew Chen BRONZE said...
on Nov. 16 2014 at 10:10 pm
Thank you!
Armadeus_Zoolitzer GOLD said...
on Nov. 16 2014 at 10:02 am
I'm sorry. "Ida"= is a
Armadeus_Zoolitzer GOLD said...
on Nov. 16 2014 at 9:59 am
Such a sad and beautiful way of describing the at times tragic human condition. I'm not sure how other people see it, but for me the "old cd player spinning in a musty wired alleyway playing a faint aria for no one" Ida metaphor for today's starving artists. Maybe I'm just reading that because of where I am right now in my life, but I see it as a writer writing things that may never be read, or a performer performing for an empty house. How we all like to put on a show, but are too wrapped up in our own to go out in appreciate others. I loved this work. And I like how you kept the title lower-cased. I see the significance in that. I appreciate this.
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