Quiet Echo

blankly I stare at the blank ceiling
      as the darkest, dying shadows
            of this fading November night

            cowardly creep and cringe away
                  into the gloomiest nooks, fleeing
                        before the softest touch of light,

                        as the lilt of your muffled laughter
                              lingers on and on as a quiet echo,
                                    as you leave, and long,  long after.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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