Shadow Poet Poet Free verse

Deep Sleep

I stayed up late to be 
Alone.
Walked to our secret 
Not so secret place,
Only to remember
That night
Cuddled together taking shelter
From the wind

In that night
If only for a minute,
A second,
An Instant.
I thought we could fly 
Fly away
Leave it all behind
As if waking from deep sleep
Only to remember a hazy dream

Yet the instant faded 
In
And
Out
Plagued by a blinded monster
Who failed to see
A dream unyielding

We spent the night in silence
Yet your touch
Your silence 
Said it all
From the beginning 
Your actions 
Your touch defined
Your dream…
My nightmare.

Your dream was long and arduous
Kind yet unnoticed.
Oh how I lay here now
Remembering…
Remembering that night
And every night since
The unjust response to your dream.
The cruelty laid upon your dream.




The wind slowly faded
Our moment in time taken
The monster blinded no more slowly rose
As if rising from deep sleep
Looked to the moon,
A moon half empty
Looked towards your dream
To finally see 
a moon half full

Only then had the monster realized
What it meant to be blind…
Now as every other night
As every other day
The monster sees it all
Hears it all
Yet never does he see
A full moon.

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