Poem Sunday

So This is Diversity

It’s a carnival of sorts

or a barrier reef

with sorted shimmering fishes or

rainbow colored slag heaps

forming “petrific” bridges

between lopped off mountain tops.

I love those piles of discarded rocks,

beautiful evidence of man’s tampering,

and how sunset creates yet another bridge

blending sky and earth in color.

Of course it is the Student Union Building

gritting its teeth in effort

to be unfrivolous — a smiling student shelter

in exotic waters, harboring the milk of academia

for strong bones (among the coral graveyards)

and a shimmering smile

(to attract the corporate fishers above).

Of course it is the Student Union Building

dressed in slag, heaped on every campus.

I love those buildings

and how they make beautiful the waste

product of the human mind,

leveling the valleys and the mountains

into rainbow colored bridges.