Daylight friezes trim heights,
Stony edifices still standing
Ancient decaying battles,
Fading listless gray above
Technicolor tile mosaics.
When darkness comes daylight
Photoshopped to his taste,
Scrumptiously thin-thin waifs
Adorn full fashion billboards,
Eye-catching corners round
Apartment ledge jumpers.
When darkness comes daylight
Poised for the leap, these
Downers decorate the city
Like gargoyle guardians,
Villains to pop protagonists
Puffing smokey smile rings.
When darkness comes daylight
When sirens slice vulnerable
Sleep like death opened out,
Who can hear the whispers,
Tunneled mice scampering,
Twisting babies suffocating?
When darkness comes daylight
In frozen wincing skies hidden
Behind baby blue blinds drawn
The day’s delusional dreaming,
But when the darkness comes
Noble neon lights us illuminate:
When darkness seizes day’s night.
In the gaze of the other 