Tag: desire

How lucky I am
to live in a place
where street lamps are scarce
and dim just enough
to leave some darkness
for the stars.
They are on our screens,
in countless pictures,
but in the cities
they are nowhere to be seen.
It saddens me that
the night sky is now
merely a matte 
infinite backdrop
and no more the forge
of human desire.
Don't switch it off,
lest we forget
where we come from.