Salutation

Standing Backbend: A Yoga Poem (Anna Falkowski)

 

There is a city within my body

complete with noises,

angry motorists,

busy pedestrians,

smog,

violence,

poverty.

 

But

this city is human

in both its dark and light,

day and night,

outside and inside,

sometimes softened

by the night air

where stars shine down

on me.

 

Come city

lift up your chin

gaze upwards

know that you too

have the same stars

singing.

 

The city never sleeps.

 

 

Done