Music of the night

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness wakes and stirs imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
Helpless to resist the notes I write
For I compose the music of the night

Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender
Hearing is believing, Music is deceiving
hard as lightning, soft as candlelight
i dare you, trust the music of the night

Close your eyes,
for your eyes will only tell the truth
and the truth isn't what you want to see
in the dark it is easy to pretend
that the truth is what it ought to be

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you