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Instead of Dreaming

Magnificent, she lay, as midnight’s metropolitan half-light      
stripes her face just enough for me to count the eyelashes        
that grace those resting windows into a soul that burns with so much passion for love and endless loyalty it could teach the        
orneriest of pupils how to strive and thrive in what’s all fair…        
One-hundred and forty-three.        
       
One-hundred and forty-three reasons why I could stay here until forever        
staring at a sleeping beauty, not of fairy tale or lore,        
but of certainty and passion        
pure as the light that adorns those silky cheekbones and        
pillow lips that glisten in the pale glow        
of midnight dreams come true.        
       
What are you dreaming of?        
       
So peaceful she lay; I wonder if she dreams of sleep.        
       
Were it that which she desires,        
I’d provide.        
      Like the very sun provides light,        
      or the clouds water.        
      I’ll be her atmosphere.
       
I’ll fight tornados,        
hurricanes.        
I’ll battle drought and showering rains        
to keep her in her peaceful slumbering comfort for just minutes longer        
if that’s what she requires.        
       
I want to be gravity.        
I’ll keep her grounded and secure.        
I am the earth,        
and her the moon—she moves oceans within me;        
and I the tide because she makes me rise;        
and I the night sky because she illuminates
me  
as she outshines the stars.        
       
What are you dreaming of?        
       
As I watch her breast rise and fall        
      and listen to the symphony of her breath        
      like a warm breeze on a sun-filled morning singing a song of spring,        
            when the whole of nature is renewed,        
      and her presence is so real        
      yet        
      so hard to believe—        
I wonder,        
and I adore,        
and I fall deeper as she sleeps.        
Written by Fizzle (Ammiture)
Published | Edited 1st May 2020
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