CITY LIGHTS

CITY LIGHTS

Night sky is pale and red

Unromantic like the autumn fall

As city slips into deep slumber

Streets are empty like an orphaned child

City lights bloom like orchids in a steel garden,

Roads lie plain and empty with no destination

Cry of the cicadas keeps night demons wide awake,

Breeze blows along the lagoon shore

this lullaby heard miles away,

as the child sleeps in her mother’s lap,

guarded by the high seas

“queen” as she is known to the outside world

Bridges, the lifeline through which she breathes

lie unassuming,

Light houses guiding the unknown sailors

seems like an old lamp lit in the horizon

its cold and dark out here in the wet shore,

as old half broken  Chinese nets guards its centuries old secrets,

church bells calls out the odd time of the night

fishermen seen disappearing into darkness of the sea,

suddenly the moon comes out of his dark tux

hope in the darkness is human life all about.

City lights are like the orchids in the steel garden.

SUDIN S K