Artificial Lights

Terrible middle aged men
Who can’t wait to get old
Because credibility is compiled years
Or so they were told
But as long as you got here
Believing that trope
One has a grin of a dog
The other, furrow of lines on the face for every word
He plowed
Building that platform
They’ll be too old to use
Aside from realizing the point
Satisfaction beyond an individual pursuit
Of life and happiness
This lonely planet inhabited
By carbon beings whose main intent
Is to distract itself to extinction
Maybe it’s time direct these
Artificial lights
To a new future
Another crack of dawn
For another generation

Another crack at a new dawn