Nightblind

By Farangis G. Yegane

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NIGHTBLIND

Many have bought themselves the sun,
A million lamps have been produced,
Houses were swimming in a sea of light,
Highway chains-of-lights
cut the darkness
of forests.

Lightness
is the intoxication
of people,
whose eyes
fail
in moonless nights,

it is called nightblindness.