Dear Darkness,

I saw you leave this morning
tangled in the frayed fibres of my curtains
your long tail the last to go
another sleepless night

Can't say I was sorry to see you leave 
exposing my bitter pills like you did
the dregs of scotch
that old tin can

I was in search of you at the window
as if you were a lover, lost to another
gone now
to where the light shone brighter

You arrived uninvited
slinked in through the side door
left large footprints on my stairs
lay like stone in my unmade bed 

Once, during midsummer, I followed you inside 
pulled black-out blinds down for you
tried to please you, to be near to you
pleaded with dawn to hold on until I understood you

Now you just blind me in death throes of winter
cling to walls the bulk of day
and the lights I turn on make it harder to know
make it harder to hear what you say.