LYRIC FOR SALE

By Janice Marie Foote

Word Thief...
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Verse 1:
Flux snuck over daylight's comfort
Summer descended into autumn
Leaves lithely changed colors
Minds started spinning inward

Verse 2:
Late summer clouds swooned by
Leaves fell from swaying branches
Scattering over wispy grass
Softening the earth's bosom
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Chorus:
A sharp echo of the moon's light
Spreads across the darkened night
You steal my words when I sleep

Lulled awake my tongue fails to speak
Silence starts to cunningly creep
Ain't you a devilish word thief
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Verse 3:
Sun floated west for a horizon dip
Branches twisted to the sky
Hawks soared high and far
With wings spread open wide

Verse 4:
Darkness slowly seeped in
Obscuring twilight between tall trees
Desire's grip held tight to our longings
Hands loosened the flow of time's sand
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Chorus:
A sharp echo of the moon's light
Spreads across the darkened night
You steal my words when I sleep

Lulled awake my tongue fails to speak
Silence starts to cunningly creep
Ain't you a devilish word thief
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Bridge:
Words arrogantly filled up space
Cacophony cowered in time
Where rhythm had no rhyme

Beneath the sound of silence
Thoughtless time became a notion
When movement lost all its motion
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Verse 5:
Flux slunk under night's cover
Summer was being swallowed whole
By the hollows of autumn's mouth
Inside night's whispering air

Verse 6:
Late summer stillness in wonder
With barely a sound to be heard
We resisted the surety of it all
Searching for reality in the beyond
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Chorus:
A sharp echo of the moon's light
Spreads across the darkened night
You steal my words when I sleep

Lulled awake my tongue fails to speak
Silence starts to cunningly creep
Ain't you a devilish word thief
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Verse 7:
Moon rose into the blackened sky
A sea of stars surrounding it
Wishes that were made in secret
Shot far and wide across the night

Verse 8:
Darkness encircled the liminal earth
Enveloping hope inside its embryo
Minds dove deep into autumn's bliss
Dreams ascended from its vast abyss
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Chorus:
A sharp echo of the moon's light
Spreads across the darkened night
You steal my words when I sleep

Lulled awake my tongue fails to speak
Silence starts to cunningly creep
Ain't you a devilish word thief
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... jmf (c) ...