Outside my Window

Sun shining on magnificent green trees

Outlined against a background of blue.

Branches swaying gracefully in the breeze

Lush greenery shields my eyes from sordid city view.

This side of my ravine, mercifully shielded from the sight,

Is magically protected from the city’s sadder song

Of dismal, cracked, concrete signs of urban blight

And architecture gone terribly wrong.

From my humble oasis midst the barren and the bleak,

I cast my eyes above the colorless and the unadorned.

My soul finds the splendor of nature that I seek,

And I rise above the abandoned and forlorn.

©Lynn Ross

7/6/10