“The night is still waiting.”
“And [he] sailed back over a yearand in and out of weeksand through a day and into the night of his very own roomwhere he found his supper waiting for himand it was still hot”
“You do not feel like dancing and there are no daffodils,only walls, your bedroom door, and the quiet of the house, tucked asleep in the night's thick cover. You wait for dawn. You wait for yourdreams. You wait in the night, and you hunger.”
“During the night we must wait for the light.”
“Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. 'I don't know' the father replied. 'What are we Papa?'. 'I don't know. We must wait and see'.”
“Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.”