ANDREW SCOTT

 

 

Redemption Avenue Ii

 

I have not walked this in so many years.

It looks completely forgotten about

as it did back years ago.

Beaten and broken avenue.

 

The same brick buildings

that have always been here,

once a bright colour,

now faded and chipped.

Windows covered with flimsy boards.

Sleeping people without homes

probably in the empty rooms

that had smells that cannot be described.

 

The roads are full of cracks,

sidewalks chipped away cement.

Yards are overgrown,

fences holding them in, weathered.

There are still cards using the streets,

driving up to teenagers

selling something on the corner

to give the drivers a buzz for the night.

 

Time may make it look

like this place has changed

but once you passed the new steel bars

in home’s windows

you realize this place

has stayed the same.

 

this place is in front of everyone

as they walk by it,

ignoring the people and the sights.

Free reign for the persons in it

that struggle to live and breath

in this beaten oasis, Redemption Avenue.

January 21, 2022

©Andrew Scott – Just a Maritime Boy 2022

 

 

Charlatan

 

Under your checkered cloak

you do not believe

that the watching people

cannot see your lying eyes.

 

You think we will only see

an innocent face of purity.

The lines give the true aura

that is exuding from you.

 

Giving a soothing exterior,

pretending a give

a helping spirit lifts.

 

So many signs

of whom you are inside.

Deceitful grin,

teeth that are fangs

searching for victims,

claws under soft fingertips.

 

A modern-day Charlatan,

taking all the way.

We can see and feel you.

January 12, 2022

©Andrew Scott – Just a Maritime Boy 2022

ANDREW SCOTT

 

ANDREW SCOTT is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of classrooms, judge poetry competitions, and have over 200 hundred writings published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones. Andrew Scott has published multiple poetry books, Snake with A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen, The Path, The Storm Is Coming, Whispers of the Calm, Searching and Letter To You and one book of photography, Through My Eyes. Redemption Avenue is his first novella