Maskless

Last night-
When you lifted off your mask

I remembered.

Why the hundred poems
I wrote for you
Won't finish.

Why I don't hold
Your eyes with mine
When you ask.

Every poem
Wants all of you.

Every word
Demands you

Maskless.

So much light
Kept back from

Such a dark world.
So much light

Lifted me up
All day.

Last night
When you lifted off your mask

I remembered.

But it's almost
Tomorrow night

And it's already
One Hundred and One.