Night Light
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Night Light
David J Walker
By night
In flight
You can see the lights that
Blink and shine on the
City of the Mesa
Hundreds of thousands crowd
The borders and boundaries of
The out-of-date asphalt plat
Where farm and field
Yield
to the plans of the
City planners
Pushing the planters
Further south by southwest
Where Builders
In hot pursuit bring
cash and call
For more of the plowed furrows
To fall to the
Developments growing the City
Give us this day
Our daily bread
Give us our water
As precious as blood
Flood the flat plain
With the prayed for rain
Washing both
thirst and sin
away
By night
In flight
You can plainly see
What you can’t seen
In daylight
Copyright © David Walker | Year Posted 2022
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