Night and Day (With Punctuation Marks)

Like the beat comma beat comma beat of the tom hyphen tom, When the jungle shadows fall Like the tick hyphen tick hyphen tock of the stately clock, As it stands against the wall Like the drip comma drip comma drip of the raindrops, When the summer shower is through Some voice within me keeps repeating Colon, quotation mark You comma you comma you, exclamation point Close quotation, period, dash Night and day, comma You are the one, dash Only to you comma beneath the moon comma and under the sun Semicolon Whether near to me or far, dot dot dot, It's no matter comma darling comma where you are, dash I think of you, comma Night and day, period new paragraph Night and day, exclamation point Under the height of me dash There's an oh such a hungry yearning comma Burning parenthesis inside of me Closed parenthesis, period (Well, "inside of me" is a parenthetical phrase that describes where the yearning is burning) And torment won't be through Until you let me spend my life making love to you asterisk! ('Cause there's a footnote at the bottom that tells who's making love to who) Spend my life making love to you Day and night? Night and day, question mark Night and day --- Night and Day (With Punctuation Marks) - Allan Sherman