sometimes i wish the world didn't stop
when night falls
talks at the dining table,
drinking hot chocolate,
illuminated by the moon
instead of curling up in separate beds.
no matter how together people can be
during the day
it's at night
when being alone
becomes painfully clear

this, i believe, is why midnight showings,
twenty-four hour diners
and long, nighttime drives
were invented.
to prolong the time between cold sheets