Light Below My Window

Memories of peering out my window at night in Northside Cincinnati Ohio Many years ago

There’s a streetlamp outside my bedroom window

A yellow halo suspended in the ebon night

An eerie glow like an alien moon

That seems slightly awry

Somewhat out of tune

In the black velvet of the night

A comforting constant

In the fabric of my young life

A reassuring buoy in the sea

Outside my window

An unguent…a balm

An island of comforting calm

An oasis…safe harbor

From the fear 

And from the strife

It’s a constant that 

Changes constantly

It’s demeanor dependent on

The time and the  season

Given at times to light translucent

Paper thin…perhaps e’en thinner

And changing from bright to dim

At will and without rhyme or reason

At times I wake tossed

In nighttime sea lost

Hair wet with sweat, as is my pillow

My night fears slink away

And my fears are allayed 

By the light outside my window

A kiss lightly laid upon top of my head

Blanket tucked tightly about my shoulders

Once more I’m left alone

With the light outside my windowpane

And I fall to sleep again

Wrap’t  tight within

The glow from without

My  window

Author's Note

From age 6 to about 9. Can anyone relate?