Destroyed City
This statue which everyone calls 'The Destroyed City'
Whenever I see it in Rotterdam, I become more and more a foreigner to the city.
All round it monstrous skeletons arise every day, new plants of our future
tomorrow, appears to me to be retreating backwards to be where then
quiet waves of the barbour are waiting.
The steel dinosaurs cannot bear it.
But when I look upon it in my garden under the tree and there millions of leaves,
I seem to hear its 'nevermore', it screams of pain and despair.