Like Brighter Things Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Diamonds in the daydreams and rain clouds
Of your pugilistic heart-
While I’m just trying to survive for you by
Swimming,
And the long journey is told to the desire of
The opened throats of reptiles
Who are carnivores, and waiting for your stores
To open-
And what lights when they do! Why, I don’t
Suppose you could ever be
More surprised- all of this talented stuff they
Keep heaped about the mailboxes
Of trailer parks- and then you have your
Old love,
As now you have your new love,
And now this- and won’t it be a beautiful wound
When you have something else-
When we have to try for just a little while
Underneath the national monuments who
Are headed into the sea- like
Sea monsters:
And this is Halloween, and you are not here, Alma,
But you are out on the streets with your children
And with your sisters,
And I wonder how long you can make me believe
In falling continuously for you-
As the lights know their own cathedrals and
Stadiums, and go to them like schools of
Minnows, wishing that they could grow up
To survive like brighter things in another world.