I am an addict

Light falls on your eyelids
closed without rest
moving in fits

I am an addict
in the body of a sober man
no need to think of death now
it comes, not to a plan
one day it will descend

once we were anything
when we did not exist
a time to which we now cling

I am an addict of your eyes
As they realize

an addict of your mouth
as it moves
and the dust from your pillow hits the light

we were everything once
when we did not exist
we do now

we were nothing once
when we did not exist
now we do

minute by minute
it descends
then we will be anything and everything and nothing

now I am merely an addict
in the sober body of a man