Cities gleam with a golden glow Bathe light on blue bleak hues of sorrow The sky, where diamonds bathe Can no longer carry how the sapiens behave So He hides his jewels until the morrow Dulling the Night so it appears hollow Succumbing to city lights cloaking His Spirit Night is quiet, not even a ribbit

However deep in the woods where the wilds lay Where the crickets chirp Where the animals pray Lies the hidden diamonds of the night A sea full of gems that shine so bright

They lay here in evermore “O Guardian Night, Why are you knocking at our door?” The animals josh, the animals roar “I, Night, have come knocking at your door My jewelled stars safe in your care Here in the woods where they can breath air Mankind shut me out after years of my share In navigation and calendars and put grays in My hair” “I curse mankind with one star in my sky And only in these woods where you can see the eye Of Andromeda, my Orion, and Polaris The humans can no longer oppress us” For nature do not betray Yet the Night sky is starting to decay

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