by Barry Williams

Created on: March 01, 2010   Last Updated: March 02, 2010

Night descends on the city sprawl
Blanketing everything in a coal  black shawl
Save  for eerie shadows cast by  dim street lights
Dancing on people  attracted by the neon sights

Midnight heralds the witching hour
When raw spirits flow and minds turn sour
Caution cast to the wind and inhibitions flee
Creatures of the night caught up in drunken revelry

The city weeps moans and begins its sighing
At the murders  the fights and  drug addicts dying
The homeless the hungry the gamblers and the poor
The angry the frightened and those at death's door

Then like a sorcerer's wand  waved night disappears with the dawning
The city awakes anew ready to face the morning
And the madness of last night  eases ebbs  ends
Only to return like the tide each night  as the moon intends

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