Around Midnight

 

 

Around midnight

 The doorbell rang,

Strange,

The alarm lights were dark,

The dog didn’t bark,

The gate locked tightly,

There was no one at the door,

It sang again around two,

Conditions the same

And I thought,

Was it you

Laughing lightly

As you do on your

Visits in the night

 Unexpectedly with

 Wild delights and

Mystic fascinations,

After all

You sound like merry

And it is the Christmas season

With all its wonder,

Gifts, giving, all such things

Many don’t believe in most times,

Do them anyway as it fills them with

The advertising feeling of the way

Things are supposedly supposed to be,

But then your fingers on my back

Tell me it’s long past imaginations,

Into realms that we can’t name

And I fall into you as the moth

Flies into fire, dives the flame.

 

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

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