FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

a child is always the light
in the room when it gets dark
everyone likes this
a moonlit night and an abandoned house
a mother and child
soon rest there, and people who hear about this
talks about a manger

it will be Christmas soon

there are houses without kids
somehow to survive they make lights of their own
paint a moonlit night against a wall as canvass
and loneliness comes
and then the bed becomes its sole partner

soon they will know how to manage
living in the dark without light
imagining light in their foreheads
and never learning to put them off
till the next morning