If I Leave You In The Night Poem by Mark Heathcote

If I leave you in the night
screaming but still believing
then we have something left
to salvage to dredge back into life
from the oily pit of that black night
back into the light. If I stay,
then sure, as there is night and day,
something will die and descend here
never to be recovered, darling.
That is why I walk away,
that is why I linger behind you
like a satellite trapped in orbit
like a comet tail, I'm ready for the impact
but I'd much rather leave the stage
and join you behind the curtains
like a raven on the wind going nowhere.
If I follow out of sight like a fallen leaf
Blown apart into a million stratospheric splinters
Will you mulch in my bones once again
And glow like an ember, always golden
Will you grow out of this night like a sunrise?
Like an ivy vine wanting to climb,
Wanting to climb and entwine the sky.
Will you be mine? If I stay,
then sure, as there is night and day,
something in us will live on after tonight.