A Higher Line

The sun specks settled above those closed, unassuming eyelids

Eardrums trembled as rushing vehicles escaped

Cameras out, fingers pointed outward – to something greater than man,

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For it was fear that strummed gently across the tissues of their hearts.

Urban reconstruction, urban warfare

Man created, and man was dwarfed

Structures piercing the skies they worshipped.

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In solidarity, they ran.

Framed by the retreating green walls

Entrapped by vertical arrangements

To forge survival

They created a higher line.