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We learned it first on the news last week,

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The moon was incoming towards Earth,

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We thought it was a joke,

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stores shut down,

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people visited their families for the last time,

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Birds stopped singing their song

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The moon took up the entire sky,

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bathing even night in light to look like day,

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I closed my eyes and held my children close,

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whispering my love to them,

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