December night

From the corner of my bed

You jumped inside the neon light

Leaving poems in my head

Dying in December night.



Took the moon and stole the stars

From the cold abandoned sky

And left the smell of your cigars

To float among the passers-by.



A step aside and you are still

A step again and you are lost,

Passing from the window-sill

Right inside the killing frost.



You seeped away without a clue

And took the memories perchance.

The hungry past has stolen you

And present hasn’t got a chance.



Your steps are covered by the snow

That came to shelter your escape.

But you allowed my love to grow

As daffodils on winter’s crepe.


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