Streetlights

My heart still clings on to your arm but my mind 

Tugs on your shirt three last times and waits by 

The open road

I still walk through these abandoned ones

Trying to steady my gaze amidst the hidden 

Creatures that used to be magic

But they scare me now

And they make me cry

Soon I’ll never run fast enough

But I hear your voice getting closer as I go in 

Deeper and you are telling me about what 

You had for dinner 

And I smile like the dawn broke all of a sudden 

In this dark night because these simple details 

Are still the greatest things to know

The last time we spoke you 

told me not to forget you and 

You know me well enough to know I never will

So I close my eyes and take in the sound then 

I am in my flat and we are talking on the phone 

It’s only 8am, it’s only August

I am learning lessons with you, our words 

honey-tongued, we are radiant children inside 

A fort of laughter

I told you once I couldn't stop

Smiling and you told me you 

Hoped I would never stop 

Where are you

Where are you now

Remind why these questions are monsters of the night 

Why the bitter cold had to come 

Why it is simply time to go