If this comes creased and creased again and soiled
as if I'd opened it a thousand times
to see if what I'd written was right,
it's all because I looked for you for so long
to put it in your pocket. Midnight says
the little gifts of loneliness come wrapped
by nervous fingers. What I wanted
to say was that I want to be so close
that when you find it, it is warm from me.

~Ted Kooser~