Night After Night

By night after night

Not now
Forgotten
All gone so long
Gone
Ripped off and torn to shreds
Scattered all over the floor
Swept out of the way under the bed and left
Thousand shreds under the bed with the dust and spiders
By night after night

By night
By night after night

Looking west
Sun long sunk behind the larches
Light dying
Soon none left to die

Strange
Faint smoke issuing through vent in globe
Low ceiling stained by night after night

Unutterably faint

By night after night