I saw you Empire State Building
looking for your twin brothers
I saw you
watching your brothers burning
helpless to the ground
I look up at you, tall proud beacon
I too am a tower
it's my last name in spanish

I look at you
glistening in the morning
shining at night I saw you
watching your brothers die
they were beautiful
and tall although
I think you have more character
but, older brothers wear their age well

I saw you helpless
and wanted to comfort you but
you're too big to hug
so I just keep looking at you
crying for you
holding you in my stare
us towers
we have to stick together

©2001, Edwin Torres

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Edwin Torres is a New York performance poet & the author of “How To Stay Kool,” “A Morning for Prisoners” & SandHommeNomadNo (previously featured at About Poetry). We interviewed him when his CD, Holy Kid, was released in 1999.

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