A Bustling City
A poem about city life
A bustling city street
zooming cars
speeding horns blowing
noisy, polluted, and busy,
red London buses gliding along.
People rushing, zooming past,
trying to get to work.
Crowds of tourists
browsing city streets
laughing joyfully,
enjoying a traveler's life.
But alas,
covid lockdown came
streets silently still
no more crowds
no more tourists
no more workers
bustling or rushing around
only the virus escalating
and lockdown control
to keep us safe.
Vaccines take hold
lockdown unfolds
quiet streets now bustling
tourists come touring
crowded groups browse gratefully
whilst covid still lurks
but as they say
life still
goes on.
©️ Denise Larkin 2020. All Rights Reserved.
About the Creator
Denise Larkin
A writer of a BA with honours (2.1) in Arts & Humanities recently gained a Creative Writing Master's Degree. She writes poetry, fictional short stories, and is the author of the Time to Run series, Darkness and The Non-Human.<aT.
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