I stepped into the room late last night because late is the time I keep you were sleeping warm as coal in a pocket of comfort and white sheets
but you don't startle anymore when I step into the room though the hour is later than midnight and neither window can place a moon.
I missed you, you say and it sounds like a promise when whispered half asleep your skin still damp with sweat from thoughts your dreams refused to keep
I follow my memory to a switch on a light Shut your eyes my voice cut short when darkness turns bright
Do you love me? you say but love is too familiar a word for in this bed 10,000 times a phrase already heard but, Yes, I love you speaks my reply though I know I failed myself and you for not matching how I feel with words of higher wealth
I know its lonely in the world tonight because here is more than what's deserved and the imbalance can't be summed in black and white cause love's too familiar a word.
