In the Secular Night

In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It’s two-thirty.
Everyone has deserted you,
or this is your story;
you remember it from being sixteen,
when the others were out somewhere, having a good time,
or so you suspected,
and you had to baby-sit. [...]

Not long ago in a place not far from here, there were many people living together but they went into different little buildings to worship.  These buildings were quite close together and each one had its own door to go in by. In each of the houses of worship there was a wonderful light mounted [...]