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Like stars tossed on the dark night sky,

Streetlights, porch lights, christmas lights,

Lights cover the dark hills.

I look around and realize

That our manmade stars,

Only viewable in some places,

Have wiped out the natural ones.

The ones our ancestors grew up with.

How long will we let our light pollute,

The night sky?

How long until children will not

Know what a star looks like

As it shines in the sky?

How long until even camping

Won't have the wonder of constellations?

How long until kids find pictures

In the bright lights of dark hills

But look up at the sky and see only gray,

I slowly watch as the sky I love,

Filled with stories and history,

Fades away into a neutral gray.



I have seen a night sky

So covered in stars

I could barely tell them apart.

But then I moved my vision across the sky

And watched them disappear

As the lights of a city

Over powered the lights of a star.

A giant ball of flame

Becomes impossible to see

Through the lights of a city.