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Night Comes for Me Throughout the Day

Music: Prelude in E minor.
By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

Night comes for me throughout the day
And closes my external door.
I know that I am in for more
Unhappiness, and yet I stay.

The pain of missing you is less
Than that of missing thoughts of you.
And so I'd rather suffer through
This torture than face emptiness.

I want you with me, even though
You're not with me. You are the light
That gets me through this awful night
Yet brings the darkness where I go.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

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