O can’t you see it, O can’t you see it,
Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon
… When the sun goes down.

The speaker’s repeated plea—“O can’t you see it”—frames the description as an urgent act of witnessing, as if beauty and meaning are present but overlooked. The simile “Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon … when the sun goes down” links the woman’s body to a liminal, transitional moment in nature: dusk, when light recedes and colors deepen. The image suggests a complex, reverent sensuality that resists flat categorization, presenting Blackness (or brownness) as atmospheric, changing, and sublime rather than merely “seen” as a social label. The ellipsis implies continuation beyond what language can fully hold, emphasizing the ineffability of the vision.