Half-Light Glow

The sun gives up behind the roofs Blue gathers in the glass

The streetlights bloom before they’re needed

Nothing knows what lasts

A paper cup rolls down the pavement

The windows lose their names

I’m standing where the day goes quiet Before the dark can claim

Every outline starts to loosen

Every answer waits

In the halflight, in the halflight I can almost see All the

things we left unfinished Drifting back to me In the halflight,

in the halflight Nothing has to stay There’s a little more of

yesterday Still caught inside the gray

Your voice is somewhere in the traffic A shimmer through the rain

I turn around, but only shadows Are standing in your place

The houses hum with televisions The sky forgets to burn

I keep a hand against the evening For something to return

Every outline starts to loosen

Every road

turns strange

Don’t close the curtains Not yet,

not yet

Let the room keep changing Let the edges forget Don’t call it

over Not yet, not yet

Somewhere between leaving And learning to let

In the halflight, in the halflight

I can almost breathe

All the things we left unfinished Moving underneath

In the halflight, in the halflight Fading into blue

Nothing is resolved here But I’m still here with you Still here

Still

here After the light

In the

halflight (ahhhh)