If You Have Had Your Midnights

if you have had 
           your midnights
   and they have drenched
       your barren guts
          with tears

 I sing you sunrise
        and love
and someone to touch

From Continuum: New and Selected Poems (Just Us Books, Inc., 2007 and 2014) by Mari Evans. Copyright © 2007 and 2014 by Mari Evans. Used with the permission of the Estate of Mari Evans.