City

I had been one acquainted with starlight;

I wandered through mazes with moonbeams.

Until alone I found myself, listening to rain.

The saddest dreary sound:

The rain upon metropolis roof proclaimed a dirge,

Wept aloud.

The night, it walked around my room

Unearthly in its broken stride.

Strange eyes shone as lightning flashed,

Lifeless eyes of window lamps.

Time cemented, I tried to cry out.

Somewhere along my way I lost

My luminary guide, an anchor for my way.