In absence of the sun

Where only streetlights glow

Your feet feel smaller here

The world begins to grow

You are but a tiny speck

In a monstrous cosmos

You can feel it as you move

Through the sludge of dirty snow

Skyscrapers tower over

As they do during the day

But even the carts of vendors

Seem larger in a way

Your shadow is so tiny

In the clock-tower’s watchful eye

Its midnight ticking a reminder

Of your microscopic size

In the daylight you have power

That in night you can’t control

As the vast expanse of city

Opens to swallow you whole