Serenity        by Tom Cook

 

  The city lights twinkle before me
  Thirty stories below the street is empty.
. Where once people ran crazy,
  Everyone headed in a different direcion,
  There now lurks the silent whisper of Sunday.
 
  The El whistles by, few aboard
  The grinding metal wheels lock
  Sliding to a stop
  The sound is deafening
  That of a seagull throttled by a screaming old woman.
 
  The silence resumes, but
  This Sunday rest will soon end
  Yielding the chaos and havoc
  Of Monay morning.