Hidden Riches

What beauty you have hidden
all these years
tucked away gems
like private thoughts

I have moved all over you
but know now
I will fall off the grid before
you stop taking people in to you

I have walked to your edge
but you go on
beyond my capacity to cover you
endless valleys, hills, secluded bays
kaleidoscopic Auckland

How ironic that your secrets
unfurl under my feet
one kilometre at a time
as I walk walk walk
for poverty...

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