I Know You From My Dream

Dreaming quite deeply one dark night I saw your image and most beautiful face Passionately kissing my soul and spirit Charming my innermost desires and wishes Beguiling my inner child making him smile Soothing my feelings capturing my emotions Mesmerizing me with unconditional love This dream stayed with me on many lonely Nights for at least over a year or so while Leaving me to awaken feeling very happy But also so very sad only seeing YOU . . . As a dream and a part of my unconscious self Yet I longed and longed so deeply to see And to meet and to love the real YOU . . . And then one day about two years removed From my recurring dreams of YOU . . . I was walking along a beautiful ocean beach And watching the waves break and come ashore Feeling the warm summer wind touching me Quite soothingly and enticing me most deliciously When I walked literally and directly into YOU! Upon on this event, we both stopped in our tracks At first surprised, then stunned, and not talking Then our mutual surprise and astonishment Quickly gave way to warm smiles and laughter And then YOU said to me: “Where have you been?” Your question said it all to me—my heart melted And I said: “I’ve always been with you my darling!” Call it Fate . . . Call it Destiny . . . Call it Karma Both us had been dream beings to one another And now we’re standing in front of each other Very real, very alive, and very much in love Personifying at once giddy star-struck lovers Whose very spirits and souls are united as ONE . . . We embraced passionately and kissed longingly As we embraced—it was as though time stood still . . . Our mutual dream worlds connected in this real world And the effect of this moment finding each other finally Was both quite overwhelming and intoxicating for us As our mutual fondness, desire, love—all there As we kissed and caressed so deeply with desire Our joyous eye contact and tears confirmed all We sat for hours on the beach entranced in our Own world of rapture, devotion, presence and passion While talking, caressing, kissing, smiling and laughing And learning so much of each other so fast so deeply And Never Ever wanting to leave each other’s side now Our souls crossed a millennium or more to find one another And to unite our human spirits as one on this cosmic Earth plane I never expected to meet my love, my soul mate—YOU! In such an improbable fashion, yet crossing deep space and time We found our souls bonded in love and blended into one Our real lives together now filled with unbridled passion And our goals, desires, emotions all cascading together as one And now at night as we lie together sleeping and dreaming Our lives, our souls, and our love all real—since I found YOU! Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved, Schoeningen, Germany (October 28, 2014) (Free Verse poetic format)