The City That Never Sleeps

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The drifting flakes, it's hard to think

Are bits of ice and not of ash

For when I look to whence they came

It's buildings that are in that path,

They hide the clouds

In how they crowd

And from them we are all but specks,

And they the specks, from in those clouds

Who would think them so complex?

But as I watch as those ants crawl,

I see one building most of all:

The one that holds the glorious stage,

Upon which singers' voices rage

And tremor, like their pretty feet

Which flit and fly

And catch the eye

And cross my mind as I walk the street.

One thing that never leaves

Is the excitement in the air.

It's nearly midnight but even still

There's people everywhere.

People hustling,

People bustling,

In a never ceasing flow.

The lights stay brightly lit;

Perhaps increase their glow.

And when at one I go to crawl

Into my bed I have to draw

The curtains back to hide the light

To sleep in darkness that I might.

And yet the city stays alert

And will until the bright sun peeps

Into the sky

And opes its eye

For tis the City that Never Sleeps.

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