Night Becomes Today

What by night would well-appear

then by day be hidden?

The candlestick, the chandelier;

as by day their use be ridden.

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What by night is wide awake

and then by day retires?

The possum by a moonlit lake,

as of dawn his work expires.

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What by night would drain the sky

and then by day refill it?

Last night’s shadow passing by,

of course, just as time would will it.

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The moon by sun is chased away,

that’s how last night becomes today.

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© Tim Grace, 3 January 2011

Revised 14 February 2023