Dark Company
Amanda Thornton
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Reality shifts, and daylight fades
In the dark I know I am one real thing
and You too
because I believe You exist if I do.
So we two meet,
And I imagine You speaking if I listen.
I cannot help ignoring sometimes;
sometimes I can help and won’t
ungrateful skeptic I am,
suspicious of what I work to understand.
When the day comes
I am ready for Your face, sunlit
instead I discover
mortal companions surround me,
their voices heard in the dark
when I thought I was alone.
While I can’t convince myself it wasn’t You,
I can’t imagine everyone your messengers
And dim soul I am only belatedly
grateful for the company.