Night Coloring -

Night takes my worry off the leash

Oh that sorry wounded beast still bites

Autumn steals the courage off of me

Like the icy fingered breeze strips the branches

And the trees so tall

Do they feel it at all

With their hard hard skin?

Someone, oh just tell me who to be

I will listen carefully to someone

Doubled, my mind is doubled over maps

But I’ve forgotten who to ask which way

And the line that you draw

Does it circle my heart

Or color it in?

Summer and I’m a man of some repute

But will I remember you or tighten the noose that lifts me?

Darkness — I’ll keep my wonder close to me

The stars make blinded eyes to see if we’ll let them

Like a child I lie

Set my worries aside

As you take me in