In Georgian poetry, particularly in the works of Galaktion Tabidze or Ana Kalandadze, the night often speaks back to the day. The day owes the night the recognition that civilization was built on the labor and suffering of those whom the light ignored. In a Georgian context, this debt is visible in the memorials to the 1921 Red Army invasion, the 1956 Tbilisi protests, and the 1991 independence war — each a moment where the night of oppression demanded repayment from the day of freedom.