Posted: 14/01/22

Sunrise 10 December - Catherine Law

Birds fly high keep vigil on a city awakening

Traffic moves busy, slow

Buildings like Lego

I think of you on this day taken

How connected I feel through this city

Despite connections of those gone before us

We share the same roads,

Walk the same paths

Pavements walked, buildings visited

 

I see them all from my glass house vigil

Buildings tall, round, square

High graffiti walls

Bridges Venn and Humber

Glass building housing art

Small spaces of uniqueness

Green roofs, patterned gardens

Tall trees as small as weeds

 

In this box of calm, tranquillity

I see the dark sky turn blue

in an instant

Squinting sun comes into view

As the water that surrounds us

as far as the eye can see

A horizon of calm

 

I feel the oneness of the city

I am grateful for the privilege

in seeing our city awaken

on this day, the birds now flying low

Keep safe, we are the smallness

of our shared surroundings

Never taken for granted

A city full of memories made

I see you.