I can hear you as you breathe next to me,
tendrils of warmth radiates from your skin.
You’re breathing: slow and rhythmic, it soothes me.
I silently pray this moment never ends.
Lying there, still groggy-eyed from sleep
not yet conscious that its dawned a new day.
An intruding sound breaks through: beep, beep, beep
The sound is near, but seems so far away.
This land that lies in between dream and wake
entices me, with your voice: calls my name.
Just a few moments more, before the ache
this place of in-between, ours alone to claim.
I open my eyes, nothing's as it seemed
Faced with your absence, I let out a scream.
