Teach Me

Soft, handsome night,

Show me how to be

Safe on your shoulder,

Patient and sure of this

Brief awakened eternity.

You are cold and new

On my skin, falling across

The bench, my Converse,

The grass speckled with leaves.

I recognise you, dark sea,

Patterned with shimmering trees.

Oh, deep descending,

Beautiful October night,

Teach me how to be here,

To know you again

From all I am within.