Pondering an uncertain future

Sleepy daylight says goodbye

Leaving pastel traces in the sky

And the filmy cloud of night quickly descends

And it isn't long to take

An active city to awake

To supplement the daylight it defends

Blinking window lights are seen

Like a defragmentation screen

So production may continue on apace

Busy minds and busy hands

All slaves to industry's demands

Dedication to a cause without a face

Having little time for leisure

Believing mammon is the treasure

The reason for their being in this place

Night gets blacker without pity

As its strength defeats the city

And heaven's lights replace it on the stage

It is a vista so compelling

With the story that it's telling

A story my mind struggles to engage

Lessons learned and now forgotten

Plied with information 'til besotten

Lint remnants clinging to the fabric of my brain

Perhaps I am not meant to know

Perhaps the purpose of this show

Is just to ponder it with wonder time and again

Losing track of months and weeks

And wary of what that speaks

Time is rushing now it's harder to keep pace

With well-being in another phase

Inventing ways to forge delays

It seems the main objective now is staying in the race

But that time's been worth the candle

Giving me all that I could handle

With all the dreams it has allowed me to give chase

So I meet this coming year

With a glass I raise in cheer

And swallow with a smile upon my face