If a traffic light turns green and no one is there to go,
does it have any meaning at all?
for who does the light shine?
who will go? and where?
does it matter?
does it matter that
a red light means stop,
does it?
does anyone ever stop?
does a
a dark sky city
do anything?
does a sky clear of stoplights-for-no-one
have any meaning?
“darkness is not empty, but rather, it is information at rest.”
I heard that somewhere once.
does a stoplight-for-no-one
empty the sky of its stars?
surely not.
they are simply waiting.
resting.
waiting for the people to stop stopping,
stop going, stop
waiting
for a green light to be a supernova.
for faces illuminated green, yellow, red
have little to marvel at.
faces
under a dark sky know better
they awake the stars from their rest,
their darkness.
the morning of the night is wonder.
it is awe
not powered by wires.
it’ll stop you like a red light
only better.
AMV
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