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You are no longer afraid.

You watch, still half asleep,

How dawn ignites a room;

His rough head and body curled

In awkward fashion can but please.

His face is puffed with sleep;

His body once distant from your own

Has by the dawn been changed,

And what little care you had at first

Within this one night has grown.

You smile at how those things that troubled you

Were quick to leave,

At how in their place has come a peace,

A rest once beyond imagining.

Your bodies linked, you hardly dare to move;

A new thought has now obsessed your brain:

‘Come the light,

He might again have changed.’

And what you feel

You are quick to name,

And what you feel

You are quick to cage.

You watch, still half asleep,

How dawn misshapes a room;

And all your confidence by the light is drained

And still his face,

His face is still transformed.