a light in the hall
yes, it’s true how
i once knew
nothing at all.
“you are so beautiful it is heartbreaking” he says
and yet i assure you
there are car crashes
and there are staircases
with long falls—
and once, you once said
for you, i’m __ ___ _____ , for you
there are head injuries & there’s:
boredom between the walls
oh you should look at the big picture lately
and all the finite details.
of course you’ll be everywhere
where
there’s a light under the silvery, silvery ____
which remains on
in the hall
which remains & leads to our bedroom where i’ll return
to my real self
should you ever decide to come home
at all.