I know what I want
Should I first ask to depose the light?
Let it chase me round and round
Me — play hard to get?
But at this point in human history
For what purpose?
With time unubiquitous
If not now, when?
With stars and firmament acting finite
To what end?

This is my why
Forever the reason why
I wanted
I wanted us
Light
Together
Nights together
As Together People do
The hour didn’t matter
Just when midnite rolled around
I could reach and humbly find
My You
Rise! Drink in the day
Fall away abandonment
Never mind the night
It seems I’m afire
Not the type frequently feared
Rather eternal
Slow-motion moment
Becomes that magic minute
Through sunlit feathers
The waning light
Bleeding, bruised
Yet, on fire for me
Like Lot’s wife
I looked
But found mercy, found grace
Having fled the chaos
Found a late rainbow
There
I, without words, left
Gloriously in the dark
Always and by you
Thank you for this window now,
Of thin and vintage time.
The safehouse to set a spell,
The anchored birch, my lean-to.
That I’d be reminded
In these gusty days
There is still
The reaching skyward
And strength to see it.
Sunrise will rise
Upon my yellow
Reminding my eyes
Sunset must set
Must
Upon my yellow