Lights out

Light’s out

eyes closed

I’m counting constellations

touching solar systems

Sun rise

slow glow

earth twirls through

daily blaze & we

are lost in minutae.

Touch hands

lock hearts

burn neural pathways

hum a melody

familiar in its rise ‘n fall

without within, connection

spins

Dusk falls

night hovers

the life we thought we

held floats away

lost on winter stream

torrent fast ‘n teaming.