The Sad Satellite

What is the difference between day and night?
To the caveman
they were two different worlds
The sun ruled the day
the moon the night
Then fire was tamed
and its light competed with that of the sun
and we had miniature says all over
in a single night
Then light in a wire came and
changed the rules of the game
like never before
Some day we may have a billion
floodlights everywhere in the world
We’d have a surrogate day in the night
The chief satellite would be eclipsed
Would it become sad?
and storm to the kingdom of the day
and eclipse the sun
forever?
Then what would we do?

© Sunil Rajguru

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