The ManHattan Maze

Stephen Schatzl
Lit Up
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1 min readJan 21, 2020
By: Stephen Schatzl New York City, USA Jan 2020

Cold as ice
but still a rhythm of warmth

an aroma
which drives hunger

lights of twinkled towers
skyline above masking mazes

white leveled floors
carried horizontal projections

a thirst

hand gripped
tight

a missed stop

verbal fight from fear

the lost building
draws lower pain

silence
blinded by darkness
you think of the hands
pulsating through the cold
by their beat

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Stephen Schatzl
Lit Up
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.” ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending