Encroaching Prospect of Modernity originalThe modern metropolis seems to breathe The fingers of the urban landscape move steadily following the riverbeds and fertile valleys. The modern metropolis seems to breathe, Stretching its arms, Scraping away topsoil, filling the earths pours with asphalt. Brilliant trees and wild beasts fall to the bulldozer as modernity encroaches. Cities, like volcanoes are an awesome site, in both their power to destroy and their talent to create.