where is your brightened play of eyes
the fire flashing
the heartening story
of your wistful wide-open light...
now there's a fallen look
cast all round you
you're somehow smaller
as if you were merely
drawing out your life

how on earth
did [bad word] to wander
out from the way you followed
to somewhere that you would never
go to knowingly...
take these words now
use them for you
to follow to draw you back
to your light. [bad word] back
to that calling smile to familiar,
spell out the story of
heartening reassurance
to me once again