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This vast city shimmers
Along the shoreline
Mirroring icy glittering beauty
Of a thousand lights
So beautiful tonight
I could almost believe
In a heaven somewhere
Far away
And yet like this
Metropolis
But underneath the beauty
Lurks the truths
We would deny
And they emerge here
By and by
The women who weep
The children who cry
And then it seems
Like a devil’s kiss
This faithless, lying
Metropolis
(c) Helen Valentina 2019
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beauty is not always what it seems on the surface – wonderful post
Cities look beautiful at night. The realities behind the lights are a different matter. Lying indeed.
Thanks John! 🙂