W H Y

And if you’re still looking for a blanket, Sweetie

I’m sorry, I’m no sort of fabric

But if you need a tailor, then take your torn 

Shirts and stumble up my stairs,

And mumble your pitiful prayers!

And in your tangled night’s sleep, 

Our midnight needles go to work until

All comfort and fear, flows in one river 

Down on the shelf by the mirror

Where you see yourself whole, 

And it makes you shiver.