TSL, Prompt 20 June 20 An Ode to a City 

Where others see Love

I see your ghosts

Long lost in history

Hoping to get deserved rest

Where others laud your harmony

I see your lost souls

In religious massacres

In the name of a true creed

Where others sing your beauty 

I see your dead

Fighting for freedom

Sacrificed In name of justice

Where others see your glory

I hear the shades of yesteryear 

Walking down the Champs Élysées 

Stomping  on the cobblestones.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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