justify the means

[freezemeover]

The lights, the lights - just cue the lights! Forget
how wonderous, how wild, how imaginative,
how brilliant the time of day - that time
of just before the morning rush of human

desire (and traffic) heads onward to jobs not as
terrific (and not as terrifying) as yours
could ever be (and more, somehow)
(could they be right, could she be right, somehow).

The lights: sun rising, sun falling;
sun goes and comes with fall and spring
and summer, winter, and everything
at times like this you wonder - why?

Yet somehow, though, the lights that shine
will last you, now, throughout all time.