Lamplight

it's dark & it's a long way down she said as she lay her head on the pillow I took one step back & I retired to evening & the movie made me feel as if I wasn't here at all & I drove home & I wound up all the windows in my car in the lamplight I breathe but the dark is falling in the garden over everything John I'm waiting for a morning filled with sunlight when we can both drive away shake the dust right off my shoes with younger friends & skies of blue like yesterday John I'm waiting for a morning filled with sunlight when we can both drive away laughing friends & silent rides & all the lovers that we lost are found again I've been out walking in the verges & the quiet through all the traffic & the movement of the night & the lamplight froze stopping so suddenly hearing the dim radio