Coded by Broad Daylight, Lost in Beauty
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Why hide in night, when you can hide in day?
God hides in His effulgent, banging light
That kills if you should see its deadly ray.
Why opt for Satan’s secret, tumored night
When like the skylark you can zoom to hide
In highest, perfect blue and shower all
With tempting notes invisibly and slide
Away in brilliant, utter, azure pall?
The nightingale and owl can trill and hoot
In darkness. Let them. You can sing and soar.
You can launch yourself in noontime as you shoot
Like unseen missiles with a singing roar.
..You choose to sing your splendour up in skies
….Beyond detection by green earthbound eyes.
~ Phillip Whidden