My night light
Just went out.
It was all I had
For day is gone
And now I face
The lonely dark
Bereft of
Even the suggestion
Of dawn.
Will you rewire
My night light?
The problem
Is with the switch.
It was old,
Perhaps worn out -
It blinked
And the resigned
From me
And my reminder
To hope.
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text
~ Sandie Angel a.k.a. May Lu ~