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 l