Darkness

I want to steal the darkness from the night,
Put the pieces, bit by bit, in the pockets of my trench coat.
Walk down streets and just suck it up,
between the bar's neon tubes and past sentinel streetlights.

To vacuum it right out of alleys
so you can see the trashcans, broken bottles and the bums.
And then, when my coat was full
my steps would be weary, but my heart would be light...

And it would be dawn