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Reject the Night

January 25, 2016
By RyanneC. GOLD, Bancroft, Idaho
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'Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.' ~Walt Whitman

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The night caresses me lovingly,

stroking my eyelids with velvety sleep,

piercing my heart with starlight.

Yet I stand impassive,

and like Odysseus,

watch for the rosy fingered dawn.

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA

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