Benchlight Conversation

(mmmmm) Two AM under a flickering diner sign

Asking

a stranger for a light

Train tracks humming on the boundary line

Got the message open

but it's not quite right

Cold bench, thumb hovering high

(holding the spark)

Just tourist directions under a heavy sky

Drafts in the dark

Borrowed flame fading in the chilly breeze

Headphones playing a song about home

Locked screens reflect the empty streets

Easier to write it than to say it alone (ahhhh)

Drafts in the dark

Unsent again

Drafts in the

dark (mmmmm)