Bridge of Sleepiness

It is a bridge of sleeplessness and you outside his dream In his dream he is with someone else with a new desire in a different life His body has shed the skin of your memory in his sleep outside his sleep Now the one dreaming over there isn't yours he's a stranger In this draining grief if you wish, ignore his dream drown this surge of pain inside your heart This night it's a bridge of sleeplessness suspended in the air crumbling you won't be able to cross for all time to that side or this The secret of his dream has walked right up to you At the dining table he sits beside you you beside him the infidelity of his dream looks at you unblinking He doesn’t know yet that he’s been found out He doesn’t know yet he’s living another life in his dream It’ll take him a long time to tell anything at all Who knows when he’ll confront himself He won’t part with you yet He’ll cling on to you till the end He’ll wish to honour all the sacred vows Only you will tire of it of this invisible one’s gaze sitting at the table one day One day he, too, will know of his dream Embarrassed, he’ll wander about avoiding your gaze Suddenly, he’ll start going on long walks Suddenly, he’ll like doing tiring little chores Sitting with friends he’ll get drunk late in the night Won’t say a thing Will laugh louder than anyone This is a warning He’s looking around for a hidden spot somewhere he needs to cast away this undesired dream This is a warning that anything can happen Don’t close the door on him yet Don’t tell him yet that you knew it all right up to the end He’s walking down this road long and lonely just to come back home One day your days together will come to an end It'll be the same old house the same old things Only, you two will be orphaned Your unborn kids hovering like ghosts Out there the same old world will be waiting for you The shadow that razed your well trenched home will be nowhere to find Sometimes the love of a lifetime fades away face to face with a dream