Mansions

I - Town

There is One town I have been in
One town Only
You've only made One town
I'm lost in the streets

There is One force patrolling town
There is One group of merchants
One bank, One church
One river, One School

There is One park
Where leaves are currently falling
Cut down, as Yagyu tells us
By the judgement of Nature

Why do I so love these empty streets
That have only yielded a $5 bill
When I bent down
As though it too had fluttered

From heaven like a leaf
Of Gold?

II - Mansions

In this corner under this curving lamp
Around this green Way
I also was doubly lost
In the corridors of a Mansion

Of which there are Many
I told myself there was a Heart
Somewhere in there, in those cold walls
A golden Heart that I could

Place in my chest and skip out
The red hewn Doors with their close
Inscriptions. This luxury is Hell.
I still believe that by walking through its antisepsis

There will be a stone step into repeating
Corridors that stretch
Toward the Limit of things
And I will be forever Free.