LCK
Acrobat
You offer me
Bits and pieces of your soul
Chance glimpses
Of the depths of your psyche
A whispered word
Like autumn's caress
I clutch it in winter's solitude
You offer me
Stolen moments, soothing your
Departure with murmured promises
Of gossamer sand
I close my eyes, pressing out
The truth I cannot acknowledge
Lulling my heart with imagery of
Your gentle lips and urgent hands
Weaving my fantasy world into
Molds long cast by girlish fancy
Futile to imagine a world
Without you as its nucleus
I content myself instead to arrange
My existence around the perimeters
Of your life
You stir beside me in the twilight
Of half sleep
I feel your lips on my forehead
Your caress on my shoulder
Then you are swallowed up by
Shadows, gone home to your wife,
Leaving fragmented dreams
Of happily ever after.
Laurie
Bits and pieces of your soul
Chance glimpses
Of the depths of your psyche
A whispered word
Like autumn's caress
I clutch it in winter's solitude
You offer me
Stolen moments, soothing your
Departure with murmured promises
Of gossamer sand
I close my eyes, pressing out
The truth I cannot acknowledge
Lulling my heart with imagery of
Your gentle lips and urgent hands
Weaving my fantasy world into
Molds long cast by girlish fancy
Futile to imagine a world
Without you as its nucleus
I content myself instead to arrange
My existence around the perimeters
Of your life
You stir beside me in the twilight
Of half sleep
I feel your lips on my forehead
Your caress on my shoulder
Then you are swallowed up by
Shadows, gone home to your wife,
Leaving fragmented dreams
Of happily ever after.
Laurie
