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Overnight
EdwardDurden

You can never be sure of what happens at night.
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Would you know if you were changed?
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Could your sense alter use and being?
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Was the coconut lime I smelled rather
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sweat from the daylight heat?
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Could the beauty of your red hair shining in the moonlight
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be of pomegranate juice,
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tart and uninviting?
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Would the calm aqua seas in your eyes deceive mine
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with a harsh blue of frozen winds and ceased pulse?
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No.
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The people I see in suits and sunlight are the same
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who hide under their bed covers at night,
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fearing to learn that earlier that night was a lie.
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No.
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My senses don't lie.
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Last night was last night
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and I'd lie to say I'd change it to day.
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7 Oct 05


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 — EdwardDurden

maybe 'overnight' instead of 'changes'??
 — unknown

too many questions for my taste.  Nice last line, though.
 — WordsAndMe

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