When I Close My Eyes

Each night, as my head hits my soft pillow A wish, for a moment, that my dreams return I wish that I will see images of you, darling. In my dreams, with you, the fires, they burn. So, when I close my eyes, do you come? Are you by my side this very evening? Do you appear and love as I love you Or, are all of my dreams so deceiving? When I close my eyes, I can smell you ; The scent of jasmine and lilac in your hair. It seems so real, I can almost touch you. Ever awakening? I would rather not dare. When I close my eyes, I can hear you As your soft voice whispers sweet affections. I love this time I have with you, my darling, In my dreamland, my needed inflections. So, yes, they are real, I say this now. When I close my eyes, you are true, I see. I only wish, upon awakening, when I rise that you were rising, too, right next to me.