Low clouds reflect and bring attention to excessive city lighting, called light pollution. On a cloudless they would kill the light of a billion stars.
The city sky again is overcast with clouds
Appearing as it did the night before
Colored to a diffuse gray-rose hue
By the night lights of a city still asleep
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I wonder how necessary are these city lights
What exactly do we need to see by them
A lighted bell tower in the distance
Would I not hear the bells if they were dark
And several buildings painted over all with light
Attractive, perhaps, but in a prideful way
Does some sleepy person need to see them
Not lightly they be stumbled into in the dark
Street lights too, at least why so many
Do not cars have headlights by which to see
Too few lights, I think, for preventing crime
Too many for driving our darkened city streets
The lights do define distinct an horizon distant
But do I need to know that boundary
Columbus sailed not over the horizon’s edge
Nor do I fear the world’s edge to find out there
It is the reflective cloud cover over head
That has brought the city’s lights to my attention
But they would be no dimmer if the clouds be gone
No, but then they would kill the light of a billion stars
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