Listen

Shh

Listen

To the pavement pulse outside your door

A riot rhythm in the city streets

The veins of the monster surrounding you

Towering over you everywhere you look

Your individuality isn't so unique

In the eyes of the crowded city

Where passing people blend together

Into faceless beings on the sidewalk

One by one they move past

Each less different than the last

Shh

Listen

To the neon lights buzzing in the night

See the glow of the artificial world

Pour through your bedroom windows

Causing you to toss and turn in your sleep

Keeping everyone from sleeping peacefully

Causing the morning to seem irritable

Making sure we're all just angry enough

To ignore common courtesy in public

Each person becoming what they hate

Continuing the cycle forever and ever

Shh

Listen

To the wind rustling the leaves

In one of the last preserves of nature

Surrounded by the endless urban sprawl

Trees seem so unnatural in the city

Dwarfed by the skyscrapers they stand next to

Soon they'll be uprooted for more sidewalk space

The last bit of natural color gone

Leaving the city grey and downtrodden

A bland and colorless world

For bland and colorless people

2013