No rhyme or reason

Adieu Adieu my city of sprawling dreams
I watched as each strewn droplet converged
Into a liquid pool of muffled screams
Nameless hopes and festering fears
Were half above and half submerged
Floated aimlessly and melted unwittingly
Feeding the body of the growing muddle
Little rivulets flowed out hither thither
The load of the central puddle
I lay awake countless nights
Feeling the tingling shiver of that silvery stream.

No more. No more. God no more!
Armed with makeshift swabs
Swoosh swoosh swoosh
Gone in three quick dabs.
I watched the drying surface
The end of a prolonged chapter
The beginning of a new phase
Of lantanas, salsa and morning after.

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