Disclaimer: Nightfall belongs to Isaac Asimov.
About formatting: for direct quotes I use italicized font.
What shall I
_ Say or write
To protest against the fall of night?
How can I
_ Keep the light?
Bleak are gaps between the strokes of night.
Truth is wrong;
_ Lies are right.
We are fodder for the Reaper of the night.
You may shrug;
_ You may fight.
Nothing holds against the fall of night.
Review, please.
Credits:
1. The 1st stanza is an altered 2 lines from A. E. Housman
_ ('What shall I build or write
_ Against the fall of night?')
_ And Arthur Clarke used 'Against the Fall of Night' as a title of his Sci-Fi novel.
2. 'Between the Strokes of Night' is a Sci-Fi novel by Charles Sheffield.