i'll stay up here

down there
it’s all perfect

on Mulholland Drive
at Griffith Park

up here it’s so peaceful
We never found a fight
out in Nature, did we?

it was always
citybound,

stuck in traffic, surrounded by smog
choked with fumes of fuming, clouds of
confusion, tense travelers and speeding
sobs with no destination but every need to
make it fast.

all that passed us. high up.

down there, was where it all unfolded for us,
or unraveled.
Down there, right down there
on those city streets
that gleam so hypnotically at night

so lucidly, luring with lies of magic and beauty.
steaming with the sun by day
it’s another story, one in which we too got caught up in.

down there,
from here
it’s all perfect

so I’ll stay up here, right here
because its pretty and because you’re safe to be you here.