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NaPoWriMo Day 18

Streetlights

Streetlights flicker, flicker fade

Trapped within this dark new made

What’s that sound I stand dismayed

For faintest light my soul would trade

Streetlights always, always shine

Invisible when all is fine

Constant lights our nights define

Now with their loss I shrink supine

Streetlights gone now, gone now black

What creeps now near me to attack

Please God bring those streetlights back

That sound! Just like a twig might crack!

Streetlights I beg, I beg glow

Give light, bring sight that I may know

Light to counter fears that grow

In this darkness, that I fear so

Streetlights flicker, flicker on

I realized they had not gone

“Twas my time to pass beyond

Look at my corpse, then outward drawn

Streetlights burning, burning still

In distant city on a hill

Burn for all and always will

Their precious light forever spill

Cheers,