Watchful

Everything about me appears surreal
on the rooftop watching the waning lights
life seems both genuine and unreal
while awake in the mysterious hours of night.

At this time if you silently listen
overlooking a city asleep
you can hear the silence deepen
as the shadows quietly weep.

Come daybreak the stillness is broken
as if the city is born anew
the streets are no longer barren
and to the darkness I say adieu.