City lights
Night falls, the city awakens from its slumber of confused lethargy
and aimless rush.
The noise settles, calms down, if ever so slightly.
The watchers and onlookers take their seats, glasses clink, laughter,
conversations.
Then the lights come on.
Those city lights.
And the actors take to the stage
The glamorous, the famous, the infamous and the barely noticed.
They all dance and chime and sing to the rhythm of the night
To the pulsating, rushing, streaking city lights.
Those city lights.
Pay no mind to the worries of the day, don't wonder about the next.
Stay calmly for a moment, close your eyes, but barely.
Watch them flicker, rise and ebb.
Watch their stories unfold as they break through the haze.
Let them tell you of the night,
Those city lights.
© Thorsten Becker
Comments and faves
ɹǝdɯ:ɐʞ ƃɹ:oɾ | jotka26 (55 months ago | reply)
schöne lightshow...
ɹǝdɯ:ɐʞ ƃɹ:oɾ | jotka26 added this photo to his favorites. (55 months ago)
CaseyJ* [deleted] (55 months ago | reply)
sehr schon nacht bokeh, viele formen
vchandler09, Rociel, shek@h, Eyvy, and 6 other people added this photo to their favorites.
EMBARQ (19 months ago | reply)
Beautiful shot, Thorsten. We included it in one of today's TheCityFix blog posts: thecityfix.com/blog/ibm-hosts-twitter-talk-to -promote-sma... Thanks for sharing it with us!
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The Indestructible Enforcer (8 months ago | reply)
Fantastic bokeh!
Nyasha-Mil added this photo to their favorites. (3 months ago)