Business Trip

And you want to give

The last candy bar

To Alex or Nalva

But they are not alone

The streets belong to street kids, who do not know the name their mother once gave them, when she gave them away.  The city keeps time captive; feels like watching a silent movie to which sound was added.  As a remake of past miseries.  As if to make you hide the last candy bar so the kids will not know you have it.

And you want to see

A smile on Alex or Nalva

But they are not alone

And they do not smile

You do not walk fast.  You stay still in fact.  You think of other kids who always had candy bars.  But who want more than candy bars.  Who do not know about these kids in the streets of a city near a river, for which songs have been written.  Songs that were not real, for the waters never washed the streets where kids do not smile.

And you want to forget

That your home has a door

To leave the street outside

And make your selfish world

Warm

January 21, 2014

© Vahé Kazandjian, 2014