Visitations

When you come to me

The lights are out and I am asleep

Now I don't know why

And I don't count why

Your eyes are so bright

And your words are so clear

You say all you need

And you disappear

I reach across the air

Extend a hand, but no one is there

I hear you laugh

A fading light in a photograph

(I forgot what heaven is not)

Your eyes are so bright

And your words are so clear

You say all you need

And you disappear

I hear it in the creaking floor

I hear the ghosts down the hall

A spark, a dying flame

I hear the static

Across decades

So thanks for stopping by

From your star in the next life

One last thing, before

You slip back to the other side