I am sorry I cannot be with you
as your breath sweeps
the broken day to sleep.
I can only observe, write,
and sympathize
and wonder at the closed thick
line
of eyelashes, of duvet that
cuts
your head
asunder - hidden beneath.
You are bare.
In truth, your twitching legs
remind me
as rhythmic breathing
sets me thinking;
slips me to dreaming.
Switch -
synchronized
in darkness -
bare.
I join you there.
- Simon Huggins, 19th April 2002