the way your lifeline disappears into shadow
and how your eyes never dim, though your smile may fall-
to watch you in your moment of insistence, pushing
even when you don't know i need you...
and everything you ever gave to me gradually disappears
but i will never feel alone again, not after
the triumphant climax of too many hours spent
plotting to gain placement in your mind and in your life.
you are a closing act, a one-man scene,
the curtain falls and i am alone, but not lonely.