Poem: Steady Rise

“Steady Rise”

Street after street after street 
Riding the waves of people and emotion
A city thrives 
Building burning and people gone 
Still the city stands 
Country fall and government change 
But the city stays 
Morphing to the city of dreams and aspirations 
Risk and love intertwine to the base 
This city will stand 
Black ash can cover the land and suffocate at the ground 
By the following spring the land will recover and breathe again 
With petty consistency and vengeance accuracy the land and her people thrive 
Pick the fruits of their labor 

Tomorrow will be there 
No matter the amount of screams shout for it stop 
The people and the city will be there 
Changed no doubt 
Doubtful of the feeling of change 
But it comes all the same before time 
The ability to lack failing
Show the greatness we have 
When we fail we’re still doing better 
Hoping and holding on to luck and betterment of a tomorrow 
We will have it 
One way or another

Let the fire and brimstone come 
By the morning light the city will be there 
Let the state flood by all four lakes 
The city will be there 
If every person left and every building lay vacant 
The city is still there 
Something all permanent stapled to the world 
The city is still here 
While countries have fallen and will be remembered in books 
The city is still here 
Dreaming of leaving the city only to release that it was always the one 
The city will stay here 
Unmoving but always changing its colors 
The city 
The city stays forever and changing