A sliver of star dances through my sky nTo crash into another lifetime nAlways the journey never the destination nThose lovely columns of fanged smoke nWander through plastic gardens nWhere kisses blown at a forgotten love nStill drift looking for a face in a world of masks nI see a light on a dead horizon nGlowing like a bed of sapphires in a sea of ash nBut it's a distraction and nothing more nJust an instrument to measure the darkness nThat swallows me from time to timen