alleyways collect rain
while strangers dance in street shadows.
nighttime creeps;
shallow shade deepens
and it's too hard to distinguish
you
drowned in black;
I outreach
wet hands
that slip off.
dissipated moonlight:
I'd kill for a beam
to guide
a lambent dream
down
and aid my search.
where have you gone?
and is this hunt
one-sided?
for I've confided all along
in destiny's instinct
to meld together
our melodies
into seamless song.
come, stranger.
undo the danger
of not holding me...