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[Donna]

Looking back at you, standing at the window 

Watery moonlight floats on your pillow 

Wiggles down sheets bunched around your slumbering body

All at once fluid, serene, yet choppy 

 

A gust of wind sends a shadowed branch see-sawing 

It draws a black line in the silvery waves, sleepwalking 

The bed linens, canvas and harbinger

Heart beating fast on the tip of my forefinger

 

That I press in the middle groove of upper lip 

Shushing sad words so they don't spill out and rip 

The delicate fabric, this moment that is us 

Silent, forgiving, willing to adjust 

 

Yet truth is in a rush;

babe don't wake up, hush, hush

The weight of the stars crush

I thought love would be enough 

©Donna H.

September 14, 2023