Sunday Evening in Gallup Park

 

 

Sunday evening in Gallup Park

the sun was setting, warm and pretty

breezes, gentle and refreshing, but

 

I could not find my swans

no fish jumping

no birds singing

no ducklings playing

not to say the trace of that great eagle

 

There were only crowds eating, drinking, smoking, shouting, and

a poor dragonfly, its body clinging to a twig, trembling in terror

a baby squirrel, retreated between tree branches, looking uneasy

disgusted by an algae mat, even the river has stopped breathing 

 

Wherever humans pullulate, life ceases to be alive

my heart cried, tearless

 

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