Boston

Shelby McKie | Poem | Published Spring 2015

photo courtesy of Shelby McKie

A city well known but hides multiple secrets

how the people traveling through do stop and stare

but never see the depths of beauty it beholds

or how at night people start to quicken their pace

the people see, of course, what is just in plain sight

how the early evening sun shines in the air

reflecting off the buildings and cars in the street

or how in day people sing in wide open space

what they don't see are the ones not causing a fight

because what else would people want to see these days

keeping calm and carrying on, plain and simple

like the way it's written underneath the staircase

a city of prosper 'cause Bostonians care

just keep pushing and fighting and succeed they might

Shelby McKie, Grade 10

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