The City of a Thousand Lights
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Monuments of gleaming steel Ascend beyond the skies Piercing into the clouds A thousand burning lights Scattered through the city Replacing the sun at day And the moon at night Creating a purgatory No more old ways, and no stories Many men are doomed to fade Leave their mark then pass away Yet the print that they have made Is but a laceration upon concrete A tattoo that will be gone one day Everyone lives their lives Euphoric and full of hope That one day they will glorify All of their achievements Reflections of men come and go Trying not to disrupt The constant flow of people A million faces passing by All of them avoid my eyes Afraid of what could be seen... Sitting in my hotel room Exhausted from the city Am I alive because I breathe Or breath because i live? Time slowly slips from me And the lights flicker off So now I sit in darkness Unlike those who are outside Engulfed in every single light Sometimes dark is comfort Sometimes dark is peace The only time I feel this way Is when I want release The noise outside rambles on A crescendo of busy voices Crackles throughout the streets Some of them of a great joy Some of them of defeat Noises that hurt my head They make me think too much It wasn't like this before This coldness to the touch The beast of steel watches over us Keeping us in line Forcing us to be our best And revel in this life The other I had a dream Turned out to be a memory Of self content and sanity Peace and quiet; serenity Is there something missing here? Or is this a useless fear? Looking out the window Upon my brand new home Though surrounded by my peers I seem to be alone No purpose dwells inside my mind No great opportunity That is something I must find Without a dwelling unity This is the world they wanted Thus it's what they got A light inside is hard to find Although it can be bought I'll search for a place that I belong Admist these temples that self deify Perhaps one day I'll fit in The city of a thousand lights

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