Concrete and iron foundations give way
     to steel and glass structures growing ever higher

     each decade.

     Our skyline swallows up the landscape,

     shadows of the buildings below grow longer, taller

     indefinitely.

                       A reflection is merely what is there
                                             after the damage is done.

     Urban renewal, construction cranes and condominiums
     and more vacant office towers.
     Overdevelopment, excavation,
     replacement or gentrification, population speculation.

                         This is history more than yesterday.
What will we know when it has all been replaced?

     Our future overlooks its direction by a necessity or greed

     we can no longer imagine.

© 2023 j.g. lewis