Nighttime City Ambiance

Darkness

Sometimes you can't help but feel alone
That even though you have the world at your fingertips
You never come up grasping for anything more than straws
That really all you have in that heart that loves the moon and sullen jazz melodies
Is darkness
That when this city that never sleeps finally goes to rest
And the buildings blacken and lose their light
You will finally feel at home
That despite the warmth that you emit like a glowing neon entrance sign
You only hold the welcomeness of an exit
No one seems to understand that
No one seems to get that you prefer midnight strolls in the dark
Because then no one can see you, and no one can judge you
You become your own being liberated in darkness
Tripping over street corners
Bumping into the occasional midnight stroller
And laughing along the entire way
We have been taught to fear what we do not know
And darkness
Is the epitome of what we do not know
But you do not fear it
You relish it
You embrace the freedom that it provides
The warm blanket that you use to become yourself
To drop the masks and the facades in the light where people can still see them
You love the darkness
But at the same time, it scares you
If no one can see the true you
Is the true you really there?
Or is it another facade you put up for yourself
When you live in the darkness
What is it that can come to light when you step out?
The running and skipping barefoot over a concrete jungle?
Tangling you up in vines of wires and electronic entropy?
In the light you are tangled, you are trapped
But in the darkness, as God intended
You are free