The City Lights

At night the city glows with a thousand lights, Towers of steel silhouetted against the sky. They show their might without restraint... Full of mystery and the promise of untold delights. The dawn breaks, revealing the tired grey of concrete, The perfume of crowded streets and sidewalks. People hurrying to spend their days inside... Afraid to notice the huddled figure in the doorway. There is no living memory of waving grass, Or flowing brook, the warriors step upon the land. Architecture built on the bones of the past... Burying a time and place of a different grandeur. The wind blows around the harsh corners, A tattered paper skitters fitfully down the way Voices echoing down the dark alleys... Whispering again and again of the progress of man. My city..San Francisco. Gorgeous by night, like other cities by day.