All Of These Nights

All Of These Nights

All of these nights hide our faces
from each other. We cannot know,
we cannot allow ourselves to see
the stains we leave on this world
revealed by the cold light of day.

We carry on as though these nights
have no consequences, as though
we stand on the outside of history.

We wait for partings at dawn,
longing for them to be over
and done with, while we stare
at the clock, hoping to freeze time
down to this one moment, forever.