Day and Night

I am the day

You are the night

I am the first hint of morning 

Smiling across at your pillow

The warmth, baking bodies awake

You are the night

Connected to the darkscapes of

Neon and paths woven

Of dancing lights

I am the slow drawl 

The waving sands

The rolling waves

You are elastic, wound tight

Zigzagging dinner tables

Streets, markets

Fire and glass 

And also 

In the dark, in the human

There too are oceans 

There too are waves 

I am the day

exposed 

You are the night

 opaque

Our time is the twilight

Where the whole world bows

In calm repose

The birds pause in flight

To Gaze at the magnificent pink lights

All noise turns dim and stern

Old folk and young all pause

And look upon the explosive wonder

Of the phantasmagoria 

So fleeting

So precious