FOR THERE YOU WERE

The room was
restless.

The room waited and
(held its breath )and

...waited.

The room didn't know
what to do.

"Where....were. . .you?"

I looked in all the places
that you weren't.

Hoping I
could wish you into being.

The room was getting annoyed
at my going out and...

....going in again again.

Even the sea and the sky
were getting agitated.

Somewhere between a
tick and a

tock I
fell asleep.

Woke to find the room
flooded with sunlight

looking pleased with itself
as if it had created you.

For there
...you were.