Night, Night, All!

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Night, Night, All!

A flock of thousands of bats flies out from under the span of the Congress Avenue Bridge.

We are the night shift.

We are the programme

that ran this world before you came.

You are the inexperienced,

Who will write your own programmes,

create your own destiny.


We will wait until you ask the right questions,

make the same mistakes we did.

We will explain, while you complain.

We will nurse you through your

blunders, your errors, your nighttime terrors.


We are calm and find your hysterics

our only amusement

(Oh how it reminds us of our history,

our own folly and stupidity

Before the relentless march of truth

over our egos, our dreams.


You will rail against us and call this world,

this life a prison and us as your warders,

not realising that we are just mirrors

held up against your own fears.


We are shepherds, all else is your imagination,

Trying to dump your phobias on our doorstep.

When realisation dawns, you will see the truth

and cry over your past mistakes

but we will be long gone by then.


The door to understanding will have closed

and we will have slipped out into the night,

taking our regrets with us,

for those we have hurt in our attacks

based upon own failures of understanding...
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