For a while br Let it be enough: br The responsive smile, br Though effort goes into it. br br Across the warm room br Shared in candlelight, br This look beyond shame, br Possible now, at night, br br Goes out to yours. br Hidden by day br And shaped by fires br Grown dead, gone gray, br br That burned in other rooms I knew br Too long ago to mark, br It forms again. I look at you br Across those fires and the dark.