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::Primal Instinct::

It comes on like day turning into night
unnatural as a bird who will fly
north for the winter to return in spring.
Every month I fear phases of the moon.
I always hope that the north wind will change
and that the skies will open up to rain.

Instead I stand here furry in the rain
it's all thanks to the power of the night.
Earlier I went through the painful change
and my first victim tonight was a fly.
Translucent wings that were lit by the moon
and a scent that smelled of the start of spring.

My new prey comes as I decide to spring.
It's a young couple standing in the rain.
The girl's hair glows in the light of the moon
and he holds her close, admiring the night
too distracted to notice a small fly.
They stand together hoping not to change.

In an instant, the mood starts to change
as they turn around and I start to spring.
They wish for a moment that they could fly
and escape my wrath unleashed in the rain.
Their screams begin to penetrate the night
on the eve of the night of a blood moon.

I conquer the dead and howl at the moon
knowing that in a while I will change,
no longer be a creature of the night.
I have gorged myself on the blood of spring
and all I did shall be cleansed by the rain
even the first death of the little fly.

Once I change back, I won't even hurt a fly
or be the monster drawn out by the moon.
But now I concentrate on the light rain
and scream as I start to begin my change
back to the person I was early spring
when I hadn't begun to fear the night.

As loud as a fly lands, I begin to change
When the sky holds a full moon not only in spring
When the rain starts falling in the dark of night.