The Changing of the Guard

Lying flat, where I can see the stars

On my back, where, below, I can see the City's lights

Watch a cloud pass over

Covering the stars

Making the City, somehow, brighter

I see no light above me

Only red, from the City below

There above us, the cloud is past

Below, the City, dimming

Oh! Darkness loves me more than light

Darkness comforts, loves, forgets

The City's lights are shrouded, gone

The stars above, brighter, lighter,

Our hearts below grow closer, longer

Rocks, crashing rain and wind, can you feel, can you discern the City?

To attack, to haunt, to cleanse, to change

Your purpose, it is not light

But light, indeed, the City is glowing

By rain, cleansing what was a hidden drought, the City, it's growing

Red light, artificial, unnatural, changed

Starlight, clean, blue, unchanged

Hope is hidden, void of love

Hearts are stricken, what minds foretold

Feeling, here? Inside my heart? There is none, only flesh...

Lighting, fighting, hiding, the clouds are here again

The City's light is brighter

Brighter!

The City's light is out

And out of a city, out of its fount, a smokestack, an artificial cloud

Smoke has come, change has come. The City is gone. There are no lights here, only smoke, dust, a desert, a stream.

Only Maya, and the one she loves

by PhilippicOrator
posted on 07/19/2007