Rainbow's Poem

In the third act
just before the curtain
brings down the sky
the actor who
no longer looks
like a child

stands in front of the stage
and recites into the dark,
"Rainbow, I will never know
another pretty girl. And you have made
a simulacrum in my brain.
You are the promise

after the storm, the part
that ends with, "for ever and ever,"
a dream that makes real marks,
promise to hold my likeness
in your mind."
The house is still after that.