03-25-2020, 03:18 AM
The thing about night is
that she comes bearing hindsight
and bifocals.
And I never looked at a rearview mirror
without a speckle.
Day is a seamstress.
A loose thread, a lost button,
you bet your pennies her fingers, nimble
will mask them fine.
But night is a ruse.
She sets out dazzling you with the
sparkles on her sleeves
but they shine brighter
on those stitches, undone.
that she comes bearing hindsight
and bifocals.
And I never looked at a rearview mirror
without a speckle.
Day is a seamstress.
A loose thread, a lost button,
you bet your pennies her fingers, nimble
will mask them fine.
But night is a ruse.
She sets out dazzling you with the
sparkles on her sleeves
but they shine brighter
on those stitches, undone.