------Sweet Despair------

Hot nights,
damp linen sheets,
sleep distorted by summer
    anticipation preludes the sunrise
    as night songs change chorus
         crickets and whippoorwills relent
         midnight mockingbirds lament,  
         serenading cool breezes to arouse the morning
             sweltering daylight subdues the sounds of darkness
             wrestling ambition from weary mortal shells
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