EMPATHY

Bronx in the rain

slick city stones somber gloom

late afternoon

overcast blues

     Navy leaves in tinsil sheen

     midnight hues and sapphire

     where jazz becomes a dancing shadow

beneath light post misty

gold.

Outside the bricks are bricks

but down there

lovers' tight embrace

in the fallow showers

catch all eyes keen to PDA 

as well as mine 

 peculiar

while traffic whirls 

loud as blacktop and oil slick roads

heavy as gutter water hitting cement

time stands still

lovers hallmark 

wet in the gills

frozen 

a snapshot a banksy a monet

raindrop brush strokes

chaos maelstrom

reality rivulets

while I am dry

inside

at a pause / intently intensely

watching

This reminds me

how it must of felt / now

in this emotion

by mere feelings 

reminiscent

wordless script

scene not heard

                            dwelling...

I am dry inside

looking down

yet how I drown when they kiss

drowning 

without.

Empathy.