Modern


Jericho's strange, throbbing with life at its heart :
people are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart
Foundations are shattered in the city
inside the barricaded doors -----
hiding behind their walls, lonely as night falls,
maybe the people are waiting for trumpets

Babylon's strange, seventh wonder of the earth :
gardens ablaze in colour, slowly rotting in the dirt
and, with your head on fire, you can't really see
The hanging gardens sing,
but with a hollow ring :
the life is false, its killing me

Don't look back, or you'll turn to stone;
look around before your life is overgrown
with concrete slabs!
On your back the searching eyes that sta
between chintz curtains, glinting,
but never owning to a name -------
like the inmates of asylums
all the citizens are contagiously
insane

Atlantis is strange, the explosion of an age :
no-one really knows what to do, and the city
is a cage
It traps in ashen hours and concrete towers,
imprisons in the social order :
the city's lost its way,
madness takes hold today
I can't live under water







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