Neon Night: Urban Sonnet

Above, the shrill of neon lights portend a promise of new love in garish hues, but for a broken life yet on the mend the darkness of the scape brings only views of solitude when memory accrues as strangers unimpassioned eyes peruse. The music wafts from grottoes down below, blue jazz and candles in a shadowed room, while up here floodlights cast necrotic glow as wind gusts and the drops of rain resume. Cold luminance is all that they exhume just as my mind expects a rose to bloom. Your recent death keeps looping in my mind, no passing faces in the crowd are yours. I walk the night, imagine you in kind emerging through the uninviting doors like Cathy to go dancing on the moors. I rush beneath an eave as now it pours, your white reflection standing in the rain, come back to haunt the neon night again. 1/23/18