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.
Copyright © Shadow Poet | Year Posted 2016
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