Sleeping Man

I watch you as you sleep mysterious man. Lost in a land of dreams - inhabiting a different world to me - temporarily. Or maybe you always do? Do you really know me or I you? Married, yet separated somehow by our differences - missing the point. Sometimes dwelling in disunited silence. Lost in languid ignorance of one another's musing. I long for you to touch me tenderly; to see transparently the love that used to be. Or maybe still is, but different now somehow. I long for you to listen; to notice me. A mutuality of conversation; a shared interest in humanity, but you dismiss me. A rushed kiss and you are gone again. Talking on the ever ringing phone as you gesture a half hearted goodbye. Goodbye then. Will you even notice? When you come home and I'm not here - how long for you to realise that I have gone? I watch you as you sleep mysterious man. Lost in a different reality - inhabiting a different world to me - permanently.