The City of the Sun

Sirens wail.  Horns honk.  A man is screaming a block down.  The thick smog of cigarette smoke pervades the air with fumes of public transportation rising above man's city.  Thousand upon thousands of people push past one another as the tall towers of human accomplishment rise above this iron fortress.  Made of metal, fast as lightning, loud as thunder, with air thickened by smoke, a glance in any direction is met with the mind of man.  Any direction but one.

I walk out of the deep and darkened cement tunnels of the subway and look up.  All of the accomplishments of humanity melt to nothing.  Free of man's mind, his failures, his shortcomings.  Far above.  Untouched.  Soaring seemingly infinitely above the tallest tower.  The sky is crystal blue.  I look North and the scene is poetic.  Like a plain paper highlighted gleaming bright, the east facing Market Street has been illuminated like a glowing red fire.  The other lights, man's lights are not paled in comparison, but seemingly absent.  They all stop speaking and stand silent in front of their king.  The Sun.

Many people have lived in this cement fortress for their whole lives never experiencing the escape from man.  I walk toward Market Street, stepping into this warm and true light.  My vision explodes gloriously white.  The tall towers of the city spring branches and the pavement becomes soft and green.  The bustle of the city fades into near silence as the crisp fall mountain air is clouded only by my breath in front of me.  A slight breeze haplessly tugs at the fire yellow leaves which silently fall to the forest floor.  A young doe moves along a whispering creek bed as I silently watch the symphony of the mountains.

All is still.  All is right.  Nothing defiled.  Not a man in sight.  For this is true beauty.  And it exists fully without him.

I step out of the sun.  A horn blasts and two men are yelling.  The sewer pours out polluted steam.  

I want to bring all these people to where they are not.  The city outside this metropolis.  A city which is vibrant.  A city full of life.  A city apart from man.  A city how it was suppose to be.  The true city.  The first city.  The City of the Sun.