Firefly

With bated breath

I wait 

hoping not to hear 

strange footsteps

In the night

As time trickles through

Desperate hands

cupped in vain

My mind wanders aimlessly

down alleyways

Where Darkness fears to tread

"Why have you forsaken me?"

I ask the Sandman

When a gentle finger alights -

On my shoulder

Lending deliverance

And I sleep in the soft glow

Of a little firefly