Night

And so just when 
the lights went out 
and I slowly drifted 
like the fresh snow 
outside of my window 
and my thoughts began 
to dance from one 
to the other scraping 
what was left of 
the day into the 
waste bin I felt 
your hand touch me 
and something inside ignited 
as though someone had 
struck a match to 
a lantern and then 
I knew that whatever 
my day had been 
it was far from 
over and it would 
stretch quietly into night