.VI. Thunderous Emotions

The heart speaks loudest.

I watch her as she sleeps, wondering what unknown secrets her heart unfolds for her subconscious to glimpse.

I want so desperately to follow her, to lay down next to her and to close my eyes and drift off into her dreams.

But I am afraid. Afraid to fall into wakefulness with her no longer here, as if it already was but a dream.

I barely know her, yet I am afraid of losing her. Is it strange that I fear losing something that I do not truly possess? 

Is it selfish? Foolish? Childish?

Whatever it may be, this is what I feel and I can not change that; my heart will forever be beyond my control. 

Eventually I too fall asleep, my heart and mind exhausted after wrestling with mixed emotions. 
I am thankful that our paths have crossed, yet sad at the knowledge that paths once crossed, only intersect but once. 

A night as beautiful as this should never cease to be, but I know there are no happy ever-afters.

As the fog of sleep descends over my mind and oblivion consumes the space behind my eyelids, my last thought is of the light in her eyes and the smile on her lips.

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