Hi, everyone
This is my entry to @zord189's Hive Creative Contest. This week: "Eye Spy With My Little Eye Something Big and Yellow". You can check the details here

_{The sign over the locked doors read: Entrance---Exit}

Yesterday, after I read the prompt for this week’s contest, I started to pay more attention to big and yellow things around. There is actually a big, yellow building around the corner from where I live and coincidentally, there was a yellow car parked outside when I was heading up the street. The street was crowded, though, and I decided it was not the best time to get the phone out and take a picture. So I went into the building, a small mall by today’s standards, and stood in line to ask about the price of some medicine at the mall’s pharmacy.

This is an old picture of the building in question.

And that’s when I spied these big yellow letters that may be similar to ones @zord189 saw someplace else. Except perhaps that the doors that are supposed to lead in and out of this part of the building have been shot for a while. For security reasons, most stores reinforced their doors and limited the exits to reduce robberies. I had to explain myself to these people in the line who thought I was taking pictures of them without their permission.

These big yellow letters stand as a great metaphor for a country that seems to have no way in and no way out. We have been denied access to peace, freedom and prosperity and we have been denied escape.

It is doubly ironic to have these big letters that do not mean what they say in a country where signs are hard to find. Most of our streets are not identified. Some politician tried many years ago, as part of his mayoral campaign but the pretty signs he paid for to have some streets identified with their names did not last much. It did not matter that they were made of metal and put on high posts or walls. They were removed or vandalized after a while. You ask someone in the streets about the name of some street and even if they are sitting on it, chances are they will not know. Most streets are known by some emblematic reference (a tree, a building, a store, even a big hole), not by name (except of course the main and most popular ones).

You get to a government’s building and you can’t find a single sign that helps you get by and find your way around the building. I am sure it that does not happen in your part of the world.

Anyways, I hope that by the time those doors become functional again we'll still have the big yellow letters hanging there.

Thanks for stopping by. Happy HF