a kingdom city ..

a city whose walls are falling in
whose bulwarks serve no purpose
   any longer

a deserted home of carrion birds

but there are to be found there   
   evidences of your images
tucked away in holes in deserted rooms
propped up against ruined walls
dusted
weathered
worn
discolored

the habitat of moss
naked to the sky
the bright blue sky where the hawk lives   
   borne aloft by the winds of promise
   the beauty of lofty flight in its wings
crying for companionship   
   for fellowship
      an echoed word
   a gentle breeze
   a place to land

someone saw the landscape 
   and the towering smokestacks and the broken walls
   and the gliding hawk and frightening vulture
   the worn staircase
   the chimney cluttered with coaldust a century-old   
   the blued glass above the empty window ..

and in their eye glimmered a promise of space renewed
home of the weary
with lights on
green vegetables
and artists-wrought wood and canvas and clay
the smell of freshly baked bread
the sidewalk coloured with this morning's cut flowers
the sound of children frolicking on the grass
the melody of music wafting its way in and out among the vendored wares
   flavoured with the taste of fresh-brewed java

a promise of New Life

the laughter of weightlessness
the banter of camaraderie
hopscotch into the blue sky


and the vision ran like a deep blue river flowing 
   through the grasses and the trees 
   and the walls
and the animals drink from it's banks
and all the people lapped it's waters and found within them wells   
   springing up into life..
New Life

and life gave birth to life

and the Life smiled
   that Life that was the Light of all peoples everywhere      
      for all time

Thy kingdom come .. .