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Lights in the Distance
Sitting here in my apartment
listening to the Mets game on the radio
Looking out my window
seeing the lights from a
nearby building
How many lives are being
acted out
Here in the vast metropolis
How many romances, how many
dreams
Are taking place behind
the lights
Imagination can go only so far
Reality can out pace it anytime
City Dwellers feel the
excitement(and the angst)
which the asphalt
homeland is famous for
Life is a funny thing
Our concerns are a small
thing in the vastness
of the cosmos
But millions of city lives
create indelible patterns
Which become the soul
of the city
The young, the old, the male, the female
all participate
In the dance of the
masses
This dance of civilization
Which continues
despite sorrow and regret
This dance cof urban life
revives the many hope-filled
dwellersw
In the concrete
canyons of New York City
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