“Night” Copyright © 2022.1 Christopher M. Evans

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Poem — The Nightingale

CM Evans
Jan 18, 2022

you do not understand

so i do not understand

there is nothing to understand

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hep!

these words the mysterious call

of a surreal nightingale

wanting to come in

during the long dark night

when i am half asleep

now though in fear at those times i choose

not to be unconscious or oblivious

it comes unbidden time and time again

because you have shown me

seeing is lovely

witness how some deal made

to allow you or i to go

where few are allowed to transgress

certainty dies propellers ejected

steering on and on

visited by the nightingale

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for Latif

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CM Evans
CM Evans

Written by CM Evans

CM Evans is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. He does all his writing and most important work with a cane chair.

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