Xanadu
 

A Poor old man buying a lotto ticket with left over money; A withering flower still trying to grow its roots.

An angry man stuck in traffic; A land mine waiting to be stepped on.

A mother stands tall beside her children; A worn out dam holding back a flood.

A man admiring a woman while his wife is standing aside; A lion looking to fill his appetite.

the faces of high school seniors on the first day of school; the light at the end of a long dark tunnel.

A man smoking a cigarette late at night; The locomotive blows its steam.

A pitcher on the mound staring down the batter; A lone wolf eyeing down his prey.

A toddler tumbles forward through long grass, laughing; Sunlight bursting past the clouds, arms outstretched

A girl yelling loudly at her sister; The tapping of a pen on a desk in a silent room.

Silhouetted against the wall is my mother. My mother taught me all the things that matter in this world, pastries in the shapes of...