True Story...

~A Pair of Fancy Doors That No-One Walks Through

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We were driving through
a desolate mall
where finding a parking spot
used to be like
trying to find a drop
of water in the desert.

Yet, today as we sat at
a rusted stop sign,
cutting through the old parking lot,
I was face to face with
a pair of fancy doors
that no-one walks through
and no-one walks out.

The walls were meaningless,
yet they once had the human magnetism
of the Taj Mahal.--

Just another marketplace hustling their wares.

I pictured elephants with baskets on their backs,
monkeys screaming; dancing for pennies,
and children running around scaring
the chickens, with dirty feathers floating in thick dust.

Yet, if those walls just rose into the heavens?

It was just a pair of fancy doors
that no-one walks through--

and no-one walks out.

Published April 16, 2010 Write a comment
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Louis Rams
very well written my friend.
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Michael J. Gale
Those doors do open for the mind's imagination and the eye's appreciations. Been there,done that. Mall parking,especially the day after Thansgiving until Christmas can be such a harrowing and pain in the arse,don't ya think? LOL! Great write!
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Clarissa
A very enjoyable poem. =)
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carol
great write could lead to more
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