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Night Light

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The out-of-date asphalt plat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 © | Year Posted 2022

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