Stranger Love

Is something there in the dark?

Stranger Love

She moves through living rooms invisibility

It takes more than a shadow to be alive

Imperceptibility is a frame of mind to open eyes

A pulse is harder to find at night

Even if you are naked on the staircase frightened

Nothing to fear with darkness looking back

Nothing is there not seen before

My unknown love is pure translucence

A cloud of white dancing on thin air

In a fog she tries desperately to hug

But passes through the wall unlucky

Falls for someone on the other side

Not to the other side of life, where

Like others of her kind find passage

Wind moving through dead leaves brings her alive

Outside along the haunted house waves crash alone

Only sand, sea, and rocks are solid as perceived

Seem vacant, empty of life in the absence of light

As is my love, a phantom angel, stranger never seen

My spirit completes and comforts me at 3:00 am

I don't even know her name or mine this time of evening