12/28/2005 - A GOOD NIGHT POEM BY RILKEE
i'd like to sing someone to sleep,
by someone sit, and be still.
i'd like to rock you and murmur a song,
be with you on the fringes of sleep.
be the one and only awake in the house,
who would know that the night is cold.
i'd like to listen both inside and out,
into you, and the world, and the woods.
the clocks call out with their toiling bells,
and you can see to the bottom of time.
down in the street a stranger goes by,
and bothers a passing dog.
behind come silence, i've laid my eyes
on you like an open hand.
and they hold you lightly and let you go,
when something moves in the dark.
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