You Sleep

observing someone close sleeping...

I watch you sleep

Complete abandonment

mental, physical, emotional

Not withholding any idea, your brain wanders

Is what you truly want right before your eyes?

 

Closed Eyes

Drooping lids revealing cyclical scenes

back and forth over and over, interweaving memories and imaginary

what you have and what you want

overlapping side by side

regretting hasty decisions with whimsical desires

instead of holding out

 

in a game of truths you once said

“I know what I want

it’s not my fault if I haven’t seen it yet”

hold out because it’s there

and when it comes be prepared

not taken by unintelligible passion and want

let it be need and pain to not have such treasure

as it streaks by you

hold fast

 

Your neck bent

An awkward arrangement of infant inability

Like a new child’s unsupported head

Showing your insecurities and beauties within

 

Tears fall

From once held tight eyes

Becoming blind from a waterlogged view

I watch them pour from the slits, down your lashes

Drips of melting snow onto your blushing cheeks

Even in sleep your body is not accustomed to confidence

It’s ashamed of its nature

It reveals, just to me, that feeling deep internal

Reviews

[MagiCrystal]

When I read it.. I imagine me.. last night having to relax before I laid on top of my dreams...and I traveled that unknown path..I know i feel light..but tired.
Also I want to continue living in that World .. of dreams.. where time rapes my seconds away from my minutes.. but at one point I have to comeback.. to reality... and when I turn.. I am here.. reading the most beautiful poem you have wrote.. I think. I will be here a long time..
(((Even when sleep your body is not accustomed to confidence.))).
a touch of love can makes feel that ... surrender.. and that peace you want to touch.

[Fallacy Pharmacy]

I agree with the reviewer below, the last stanza is absolutely gorgeous :) Very well done indeed.

[TransparentHearts]

Awwe, I love the last stanza and how you portray tears and their course down the cheeks. Very well done.
-Probably your biggest fan-