<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344588" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Darkness Falls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A blackbird utters its warning call, <br>As, slowly, darkness begins to fall.<br>The temperature grows steadily colder, <br>As the day grows steadily older.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the houses, lights are being put on, <br>Now that daylight has almost gone.<br>Shift workers head out into the night, <br>While most of us are snuggled up tight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People head to town for an evening out: <br>Laughter is heard, as is the odd distant shout.<br>Cats come out to search and stalk their prey: <br>Woe betide the creature who steps in their way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ducks settle down: Head under their wing.<br>Small birds have roosted and no longer sing.<br>Moths flit to and fro around a light.<br>Bats whizz by silently in their flight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small children are being put to bed, <br>Laying down their sleepy heads.<br>People settle down to watch the TV, <br>Hoping that there's something good to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon shines way up high.<br>The stars twinkle away in the velvet sky.<br>Owls come out for their nightly feed, <br>Hoping to satisfy their hunger needs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Livestock is rounded up and locked away, <br>In an attempt to keep the sly foxes at bay.<br>Spiders come out and crawl about, <br>Freaking the arachnophobics out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For hours on end, our world is dark, <br>Till, by the dawn chorus, first light is marked.<br>Dawn slowly gives way to daybreak, <br>And those, who have been sleeping, awake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While those who have been put to task, <br>Can head home to their beds at last.<br>The routine of a brand new day calls, <br>Until, once again, darkness falls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Angela+Wybrow">Angela Wybrow</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344588" data-title="Darkness Falls de Angela Wybrow" data-description="A blackbird utters its warning call, As, slowly, darkness begins to fall. The temperature grows steadily colder, As the day grows steadily older. In the houses, lights are being put on, Now that daylight has almost gone. Shift workers head out..."></div> </div> </div>

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