Poem: "Darkness"

[hsavinien]

Title: Darkness
Author: H. Savinien

You are my gentle, dark-winged angel

--soot-streaked and ragged.

You are a cloak about my shoulders

cushioning me against

the freezing concrete.
 

You are in those hours that are neither night,

nor yet morning,

because the weak sunlight hasn't crept in.
 

You are in the alley,

sharing the remnants of the painted cardboard box

against the grate.

You know I am

and you remember me.