Your Adoring Audience
(for a friend)

They flicker, and the lights go out.
''I'll shut them tightly,'' so you say,
''And all my pain will end.''
But on again, and brilliance shining;
Blue looks up, azure sky rising;
Clouds of white and elephants
are dancing in the glass...
A sigh, a cough, a wink, a smile,
all so welcome, so desired...
Look now, love, turn on the lights--

You're beautiful.