Awake At Night

The blind do think The night is black Too sure—they say— To need look back And see. Stars are too faint To bother And tire The eyes to see. At night All draw the curtains thick Turn on the light Enough to see. When night comes Turn off all light And hold the morning's breath And breathe the quiet Consume the mind To see And search the blue To find How raise the curtains That with mercy conceal What if reveal Must blind the sun With the most most pure light Yet from the stars To the moon I breach A flight To reach And fill With the midnight blue Near half dissolved Near half dissolving In pure pure light I drink deep drink And beat it with the red Plant in the heart An ever wakened violet And let Remain How can we sleep the night? How come we slip the bright And blur With the morning sun? Tonight Dissolve it in the moon And the star twin Dive In those blues And Sink In breathing Life!