Skyscraping Ediface

“What doesnt lose potency?

The prose and the poetry;

Dangling at the edge of the precipice,

I presuppose my skyscraping edifice will pose as prominent;

I honor it - this monument’s a testament of providence, yet is provisional:

This building never looks identical - it changes:

Some renovations are appartent, others are subliminal;

I’ll run up to the top level to review the views

- I’m staring forward: This is the outlook that I choose:

From these heights?

I see a lot of people, lots of motion -

I can’t make out all their traits, but I do catch their emotion;

I believe that empathy can counter commotion and ground;

If we aim to understand another, how could we confound?

If we accept each other’s differences - discern and allow:

We’d get a city with a skyline from a disjointed town.”

- Old Dying Joe