The city always sleeps

Sleep well tonight quiet city
Let the stars be hidden behind your eyelids
Tonight is not for you, my darling

Swirling hazes halo city lights
Tomorrow they'll be gone by sunrise
Like dreams of wondrous worlds.

Let the trucks ride your roads
Making their way toward morning
These nocturnal messengers.

Their halogen eyes light their path
Because sometimes the stars aren't bright enough
To guide through the indigo blanket.

Sleep tight tonight my darling
And forget that the world is always turning
Tomorrow is waiting for you.

Granite statues

Silvered solid granite statues
Crumbling so slowly with time
Fingers pointing to each other
Yet never knowing why

Raised by talented artists' hands
Graceful moments captured until forgotten
Time takes its toll on stone
And sends it tumbling to the earth

Idols cast of pure emotion
Into rock so void of life
Then recalled with passing glances
Time smoothing jagged edges

Until at last the story's lost
And only shapes remain
Watching time reveal the cracks
As stone returns to ground.